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sikine ajulera: ja:ja' 3 The ice begins to open. 
qu'imiukajik 4 That scamp from Qoowik 
patsitartinyokajtk 5 But how he is used to beat! 
napiciarpod napiciarpoa 6 I go in pieces, I break in half, I go in pieces! 
napiciarpoa 
NOTES. — 1. a: farge:a (according to Kuannia) ‘the starting-point for a 
journey.’ — 3. Literally ‘the ice begins to be unsuitable for it (the crossing). — 
5. patsi-, probably answers to WGr. patitsi- ‘gives him a blow with what one 
has in one’s hand.’ 
В. UAAJEERTUT WITH WOMEN’S MAKE-UP 
No. 140. Nuliäkkaaq Aakacinaarter — The Woman who sings: 
How scandalous! 
Ajukutooq and Mitsuarnianna. 
The player is a man who makes his appearance in a woman’s 
clothes, with his hair arranged in a tuft. The point of his nose is 
pressed upwards with а cord run across his face and knotted at the 
back of his neck. His cheeks are dis- 
tended with a plug of wood placed 
crosswise in his mouth between them, 
and his stomach protrudes like that 
of a woman in pregnancy, by reason 
of a number of clothes having been 
stuffed in under the anorak. Clothes 
or boots have also been stuffed into 
the hood of the anorak, and are meant 
to represent the child carried in it. In 
this get-up the player enters through 
the house passage as a visitor, and 
dances, drums, and sings with his face 
turned towards the spectators on the en 
woman who sings: How scandalous! 
platform. He comically imitates the (Drawing by Kaaralik, 1906.) 
voice of an old woman, with indefinite 
intonation (1. 1—2). Next, the song is interrupted by one of the 
audience (a man?) making some remarks to her (1. 3—5), whereupon 
she breaks in with a passionate or enthusiastic exclamation and 
repeats the song. Probably the game is repeated in front of each seat 
on the platform. It is a pendant to the woman’s song in no. 155, 
and reminds one of the game described by G. Holm, where a singing 
woman challenges a man to touch her sexual organ (se First Part, 
p. 128), and is perhaps a similar game as that mentioned even by 
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