304 W. THALBITZER. 
No.136. Tikaaruttik — The Rostrated 
Whale. - 
Mitsuarnianna and Ukuttiak. 
A drum-dancing man who has 
filled his mouth with water from the 
water-butt pursues the others in the 
house while he spouts out water at 
them like a whale (Balænoptera ro- 
strata). Fig. 65. Uajeertoq player. The 
rostrated whale. 
(Drawing by Okusuk, 1906.) 
No. 137. The Handsome Man. 
Ukuttiag. 
tät a "na Шаг pergin: inidikaluarta:rmegq 
‘Look at this man, what pains he takes to look handsome! 
His mouth is distended by means of a wooden spike placed 
crosswise between the cheeks, and his eyes and nostrils are widely 
extended by means of thin straps of skin which are laced round his 
face and tied in a.knot on his neck (cf. по. 120 and 121). 
No. 138. I made a Hole. 
Ukuttiaq. 
While singing and daneing, the player manages to strike his head 
first against a roof support, then against a drying frame or some other 
thing. Each time he exclaims: 
put'up:oa ‘I made a hole’ (in it or in my head”). 
No. 139. Patsitarter — The Man who has been beaten. 
Composed by Attiartertoq’s father. 
The man in the house has been beaten by his opponent in the 
drumming contest, and wishes to depart, but cannot slip away because 
of the badly frozen sound. After having sung the first five lines the 
player bends forward, sticking out his posterior behind and his nose 
upwards, while at the same time he holds both his arms away 
from his body downwards, and sings the last line with a specially 
lamenting emphasis: ‘he has broken my bones in pieces!’ 
atauilerarput 1 Then we hasten a little in getting across 
ikæriakae put 2 Our difficult crossing of the sound. 
