266 W. THALBITZER 
ea— ea 
itermaline q 1 My grandfather, they say, 
nalinin-ag perqim:ana 2 Has allowed me to do whatsoever. 
pilerpoa 3 I begin. 
amarqamaline:q 4 My grandmother, they say, 
nalinin-ag perqim ana 5 Has allowed me to do whatsoever. 
рИегроа 6 I begin. 
NOTES. — 1. In lines 1 and 4 the syllable -li- indicates ‘both — and.’ — 
2. Kuannia understood this especially to mean that she had permission to 
eat all kinds of meat and entrails, without risking the provocation of the 
spirits. 
No. 76. When Mourning Ceases. 
Qiwinalaaq. 
Formula used on the same occasion as the foregoing. The mourner who 
has touched the body during its dressing and interment is said to steam 
with corpse vapour (pujoq ‘smoke and mist’), i. e., to be unclean (cf. nos. 70 
and 74). Qiwinaraaq had bought this formula from Kunnitteq at Qinnik close 
to Ammassalik. 
ea ea 
pujurpoa 1 I steamed with vapour, 
kisime uwana pujuy'ilana 2 But I smoke no more with vapour, 
awätivun kisime pujorput 3 Only our extremities steam with vapour. 
NOTES. — 3. awät'iwun ‘the extreme ends of our (the mourners’) bodies’ 
1. e., the head, fingers and toes. 
No. 77. A Woman’s First Sewing after Mourning. 
Qiwiyalaag. 
Formula used by Qiwinaraaq when, after her mourning after a death, 
she, for the first time, again began to sew. She bousht it from a woman, 
Taamakajeek, at Umeewik. 
ea ea 
co: put'uane риЁигагроа 1 Whose claws have I for pinch- 
fingers ? 
awaniartep putuane puturarpoa 2 The bats claws I have for pinch- 
fingers. | 
piltwici?n:ik 3 ‘On account of’ my housewife 
work (?). 
co: putuane puturarpoa 4 Whose claws have I for pinch- 
fingers ? 
