300 W. THALBITZER. 
No. 126. Init"saq — The Humble-bee.!. 
Kunnay. 
There enters a man of comical appearance. His face is deeply 
sooted; he has a moustache and a great stomach (clothes stuffed up 
under his anorak). He takes his boots off, and strikes at the house- 
dwellers with them, while he shouts out inerniarcina ‘will you sting 
me?’(?) He then begins to drum, but as, after repeated attempts, the 
drum gives forth no sound, he strikes his stomach with the drum- 
stick and.exclaims in a surprised tone: soga'”na ‘what's the matter, 
what’s wrong with it?’ 
No. 127. Tikaajaat — The Lazy Cock Seal. 
Kunnan АХ. 
X AX 
Refrain ja’ ge Je jal Break 1 usitersipa usil'ersiya! — 
aja ja je (recitative, 
9 leet ae 6 pone, RL Е 
Е ee quickly) ~ kig toga wa kip'ioqa wa 
qa’ Je qa jal 
Ja QE Je: “al 3 pe ma даша pen aqa wa 
aja aja ...(etc.) 
The rôle is that of a drumsinging and dancing man (not black- 
ened with soot). The name Tikaajaat is not rare in East Greenland. 
The periods of the refrain are interrupted by three different exclama- 
tions, each of which is as usual repeated three times, with a short 
pause between. These exclamations are as follows 
usil’ersiypa ‘Lay the burden (the load) on ше!, — just as one loads а 
boat; then they collect a little pile of boots and skin dresses 
on his bent back. 
kig'ioqa wa ‘I am about to capsize’ — then he totters in his bowed 
attitude to the left and to the right like a boat in a seaway, 
and the drum-beats sound boisterous and shaky, to indicate 
the perilous moment. 
pe:n’agqawa ‘I have risen again’ — like a boat that had nearly 
capsized; with these words he rises, and begins to drum and 
dance again. 
1 Otherwise in the Ammassalik language ige‘torartikajik, ‘a bee’, < inerpay == 
inip:a: “(the bee) stings him with its sting.’ WGr. igutsak ‘a bee.’ 
2 Cf. WGr. tigäwok (Fabricius) 1) is lazy, 2) is a cock pigeon. Cf. tix'aq ‘а male 
seal’. 
3 Cf. WGr. piungnaerpoq (Fabricius) 1) recovers, 2) stops. 
