294 W. THALBITZER. 
a: ha ha ha har 1 (Laughter) 
takin: dtst®na‘ra‘rce 2 Have you seen that horrid, loathsome 
vision 
a-litsät tunudn:tk 3 Behind the skin curtains on the wall? 
qgajaätivärn'erme 4 At (the back of) the great hairless skins — 
sume'’na mitsilut'okajegaq 5 Where is ‘she’ who sucks so strongly and 
badly? 
Notes. — 2. Cf. WGr. takun:uwoq ‘is tired and sick of seeing something’, 
and taku®sunarpoq ‘looks ugly and horrid. — 3. Obsolete designation for 
a‘ litsät ‘the waving (skin). This skin wall-hanging is used in the summer as 
outer tent-skins. The tents are double-covered. 
No. 117. Coowit — What were you? 
Ajukutoog. 
The uaajeertoq with a stick in his hand comes singing and 
dancing in front of the platform, while he moves from one seat 
to the next, asking each of the adults: “What were you?’! He who 
has been “as a child” during the course of the summer answers 
at-ewoa: 1 was lowest.’ He who during the winter has “not been as 
a child” (i. e. has had sexual intercourse) answers gatewoa: “I was 
uppermost.’ The uaajeertoq gives them all a stroke of the stick over 
their heads, but with varying force. Those who declare that they 
have been uppermost he strikes but lightly, and those who declare 
that they have been lowest receive a severe blow from him. (The 
explanation of this game was incomplete and obscure.) 
Nore. — ! Kuannia apprehended this as suwiit ‘what do you want’, but 
he didnt know the game. 
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No. 118. Qaccarpoa — I am an Up-crawled Seal. 
Ajukutoog. 
The player imitates a seal putting its flippers out on the ice in 
order to crawl up. He keeps his eyes wide open and his arms drawn 
up and crooked, with his hands forward like the flippers of a seal. 
His cheeks are blackened with a little patch of soot. He is clad in 
a seal-skin anorak with the hair outward. First he sings and drums 
for a little while: “I am a seal crawled up on the ice.” Then he 
puts away the drum and crawls like a seal to the waler-barrel by 
the furthest platform-place, here he ducks his head down into the 
water, emerging at once with great terrified eyes. During the laughter 
of the onlookers he moves on again to the next platform-place, 
