Language and Folklore. 293 
When, then, Ajukutoog plays this game as I saw him perform 
the rôle in his tent on Atteqin Island near Cape Dan in the summer 
of 1906 — he imitates Qaqqilaayerseq, the singer and player of the 
past ‘he who gnaws at a bone.’ He discards his hair-band, and en- 
tangles his long hair so that it stands out in all directions; his cheeks 
are distended with a lump of wood which lies cross-wise in his 
mouth. Thus Ajukutooq sang and danced on the floor, with the 
drum in his hand, while I looked on. 
On the same occasion I recorded the few words of the song, 
and on a subsequent occasion I got him to sing them into my 
phonograph. 
A. As usual, the commencement was a sort of prelusive refrain. 
Next he uttered a loud cry addressed, (so Ajukutooq explained) to 
Qaqqilaanerseq, whose name was likewise shouted aloud, together 
with the following invocation, “in order that it might be heard out 
at the abode of the dead.” 
(Refrain) eje ja aja'ja jaja ja e"qa”na 
ajaqa je ajaa jajaja 
(Shout) Eh Qaq:ilanerser! e”n’e'riartegalan'a ! 
Afterwards Ajukutooq continued the refrain. As with all these pieces, 
the performance can be drawn out as long as one wishes, the song 
being repeated many times without pause. 
X (Ajukutooq’s second description). — Qaqilaanerseq, the bone-gnawer, 
a man with long, entangled hair. Naked trunk. Stump in the mouth. 
Dances (diwdwoq) with back to platform. Goes about in the house 
and howls: 
ho" Qaqila:nerse"! i ne riarte:-qatan-a 
Ho’: Bone-gnawer! now come and sing with me! 
NOTE. — Ajukutoog said: (ne -rqilog i®pe"rpa'pa “Akernilik’s wife chal- 
lenged me to come up and sing with her.” Ajukutook went to her and, in a 
comical pitch, recited the above words, and atterwards sang the refrain. 
No. 116. Mitteertokajeqaaq — The sucker. 
Ajukutoog. 
A man with his face blackened with soot represents an angakok, 
making spells and exorcising. Thereupon one of the house-spirits (ie 
e'wa) appears to him: a woman with her face contorted as by a 
long kiss or a suck at her mouth, hollow-cheeked and wrinkled 
because of the convulsed attitude of her lips. When the angakok 
tells his house-fellows of his vision they ask sume'”na ‘where is she?’ 
Whereupon he commences to sing with stuttering breaks, because of 
the stereotyped sucking distortion: 
