€ rm 
292 W. THALBITZER. 
Ammassalik the memory of such a festival-house has evidently re- 
mained in this part of the country. I shall revert to this in the sec- 
tion about the festival-house From this we may gain a hint to- 
wards understanding the origin of the uaajeertoq games, rather than 
in Ajukutooq’s “tale of the origin”, to which I do not think much 
real importance can be attached (see the remarks introducing the 
game Qaggqilaanerseg, no. 115). 
All the headings of the mimic drum-songs (uaajeertut and tiwalit) 
are in accordance with the names given by the natives themselves. 
56 UP ARE RU IT WET Jet WUBIN SEN AKER UP 
No. 115. Qaggilaanerseq — The Bone-gnawer. 
Ajukutoog A (DD) and X (Phon.). 
Ajukutooq supplied me with a myth relating to the origin of 
mimic games. The first uaajertoq player was a man who lived at 
Umeewik and was called Qaqqilaanerseq ‘he who gnaws at a bone 
so that it is audibly scrunched be- 
tween his teeth’. He was born with 
very curly and entangled hair, and 
was distinguished in all kinds of song 
and merriment. Once he hit on the 
idea of using his remarkable head of 
hair for the game which is named 
after him. After having fed on a seal’s 
flipper and gnawed the flesh off it, 
he took one of the gnawed off bones 
+ in his mouth to distend his cheeks, 
een lager Фе ran his fingers through his hair, seized 
Dr Oli cy MRSA, 008) О ба amd EME make (in the 
Eskimo fashion) on the floor, with 
his back towards the platform and his face towards the entrance, 
while his house-fellows sat and looked on. In this ‘disguise’ he was 
accustomed to play for them later. All other games were invented 
alter that time. 
Uaajeertut are men who appear either naked — often with soot- 
spots on parts of the body — or dressed up. Women appear less 
often, and then wear naatseen (short trousers). — It was expressly 
pointed out that Qaqqilaayerseq was not an angakok. 
1 The stem of the word is qaq'il:a'rpa: (WGr. qaq'ula-rpa:) ‘cracks, crushes some- 
thing betwcen his teeth.’ Labr. gaggolarpogq. 
