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No. 142. Uppaminarter — The Woman Who Snatches at Food. 
Ajukutooq, Mitsuarnianna. 
This uaajeerneq, like no. 140, belongs to the naarteer rôles which 
represent women in pregnancy. The man is got up as a woman, 
with his hair dressed up in a tuft. His face 
is blackened with soot, and the tip of 
his nose is pressed upwards by means of 
a string. He makes his appearance through 
the entrance. From the roof-beams hangs 
a piece of blubber by a cord. Now is heard 
the shout: up'amigarniarit ‘snatch at it! 
Just when the full-bellied woman is about 
to take a bite, someone on the main plat- 
form hoists the piece of blubber up to- 
wards the ceiling by means of the cord. 
This manoeuvre is repeated, while the 
woman pursues the blubber and gets her 
sooted face smeared with fat. When she Fig. 67. Uaajeertoq player. 
finally succeeds in getting a bite into it, The pregnant woman. (Drawing 
she holds on fast with her teeth, and by ава И 1908) 
drags it towards her, while one of those on the platform hauls in 
the opposite direction. 
This is probably the same game as that which Ukuttiaq called 
up'apiya, in which a pregnant woman devours great quantities of 
blubber. | 
At this game the performing uaajeertoq receives an abundance 
of gifts. 
No. 143. Naarteer — The Pregnant Woman. 
Ajukutooq, Ukuttiaq, Mitsuarnianna. 
A man clad as a pregnant woman (stuffed out stomach, etc.) 
makes his appearance, and causes merriment by his comical gestures. 
The spectators shout out na'rte na'rtega' ‘she is pregnant, distinctly 
pregnant’, while she herself sings: narteqawa ‘I am decidedly 
pregnant.’ She goes round to all the seats and is given presents. | 
No. 144. Näcaararter — The Woman with the Little Hood. 
Ajukutooq. . 
A man clad like a woman with hood (ndcaaja) on his back, 
and his face blackened with soot, first goes out of the house and 
fills his hair with snow. Then “the woman” enters and goes round 
to all the seats on the platform, and collects a number of gifts 
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