244 W. THALBITZER. 
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Refrain Burden 
a OP ja але: ivn-ela lätap'oû 
В æja ja jajaj uanale ut:ume Ца: 
у jad aja вата] Kaniwomatsiwaka:ja 
ergartio:matiwak:o 
ны № = 
5 kiamut targawoa 
6 -ne‘lip'ivwa:ta 
7 kiamut-o tarqawoa: 
Notes. — 1. Doubtless this line has to be read as one word, though re- 
corded in two. -al®a = (a+) WGr. -usa- ‘half and half, approximately, vaguely’; 
-[-ар- = WGr. -L-ap- ‘a moment, a little.” — 5. (cf. 7 and 10). Here the reciter 
explained that the bears are always met wandering towards the north, never 
towards the south. Naturally the two who meet are the hunter and the pur- 
sued animal. kiamutu = kiam:un + lo ‘and’ (“both — and”). — 8. WGr. ip-erpa: 
‘follows a very tortuous way (through the ice hummocks)’; ‘rows round the 
bear and hampers it from the opposite side. — 9. md”c:arpa: 1) ‘lulls a child 
to sleep’, 2) ‘recites a spell over the killed animal (bear, seal, etc.) in order 
to resuscitate its soul. Cf. ma’”c:a: ‘means of consolation’, ‘plaster.’ — 11. The 
object is not named more clearly, but anyone can understand from what goes 
before, or from the melody that a bear is in question. 
No. 44. Signal Song on Catch of a Bearded Seal. 
Attiartertog (Phon.). 
The kaiak paddler on his way home sings of his catch of a bearded seal. 
Refrain a aja jaja (Г: 
в qa-ja та:]= у аага ja Rajat 
milik-arpika na даа та:}]е: 1 That floundering animal caused 
me great trouble, 
piläma-ja maqa:ja та]г 2 That animal I got. 
milikarptka na дала ma-je 3 Floundering it caused me great 
trouble. 
pildmaowutit tåmaqa'ja ma-je 4 You G.e. I?) are well versed in 
hunting. 
NOTES. — 1. I am in agreement with Kuannia when I think that I can 
identify the word with pis’ikartipaya (< pis’ikarpog) the animal made me 
jump (?)’, viz., make great exertion, because the animal itself struggled greatly 
while I was killing it. By this is indicated how strong the animal was (and 
one immediately thinks of a bearded seal). — 4. Whom the singer addresses 
or thinks of is not clear; Kuannia thought that it was addressed to the op- 
ponent in the drum-contest (who hears the song on land), but this is im- 
probable. It might rather be thought that he addresses himself in this man- 
ner, or puts the words into the mouth of some imagined listener on land. 
— тада:]а (<im'aga? and aja) and tamaqa:ja mä:je seem to be merely 
refrain-words. They are probably used only in connection with the capture 
of a bearded seal. 
