Language and Folklore. 301 
No. 128. SuluppaaYtaa — His Excrement. 
Ajukutooq. 
The player is a man who holds the right corner of his mouth 
obliquely drawn down while he performs the tiwawoq-dance. The 
break with exclamation consists in his squatting down as if to obey 
a call of nature. 
culup:a®ta ?, a pa:qa “His exerement is blubber.’ 
Note. — ! The word is mostly used of a loose opening. 
No 129%Paipapa The Wriooler. 
Ajukutoog. 
A man who is quite naked (without naatseen, and not blackened) 
performs a füvaleq dance, turning his head alternately right and left, 
while between the periods of the refrain he sings: papapa’ ‘to wriggle 
one’s posterior’. 
NOTE. — 1Cf. papata'ja in the WGr. children’s game is'itaia rta ‘let us 
squat down’ (or ‘stick out the posterior’). papala'ja means ‘let us make а 
swaying-wriggling movement of the posterior.’ See Phon. Study рр. 315-316 
and cf. WGr. parpo'rso'rpog ‘moves (writhes) the rump in a figure -of 8’ (the 
typical tiwaleq dance movement). 
Fig. 59. Uaajeertoq player.: The sealer who uses a scraping-board for his 
hunting-bladder. (Drawing by Kaaralik 1906.) 
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No. 130. A Sealer who Uses a Scraping-board for his Hunting-bladder. 
Mitsuarnianna. 
The player represents a kaiak-paddler who is out after seals 
and who uses a scraping-board for his hunting-bladder: puilisertoq 
ikiarpim:e put-arit-erarter. He sits on the window platform, and т 
front of him has a stuffed anorak (seal-skin frock) which represents 
the seal he is hunting. The scraping-board (ikiarpik, cf. First Part, 
fig. 226) is seen behind, fastened to a short line, and represents his 
hunting-bladder (fig. 59). 
