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(picät), meat or other useful articles which she places in her hood. 
Next she seizes the drum and begins to dance, when another strikes 
the drum out of her hands; him she pursues, angrily giving him 
and the others hard blows with the drum-stick. 
No. 145. Arqarsaaq — She Who Bears Down. 
Kunnan. 
A man in female attire goes drumming from seat to seat, saying 
at each sartiay:a! take me in your lap, while turning his back. 
When he then sits down, he bears down so heavily that they col- 
lapse and have to give way, which causes merriment. 
NOTE. — ! = WGr. загмагра` ‘has a child in her lap.’ 
No. 146. Ammuttak. 
Kunnay. 
The player is a man dressed like a woman, who, while he drum- 
dances, addresses his song to the men or women on the platform. 
The name of the woman represented, Ammuttak, means ‘the one who 
puts out a tongue’ (the reciter’s explanation). Without being quite 
sure as to how the game shall be understood, I think that in the 
first word of the text the player alludes to his being a man (in dis- 
guise), inasmuch as he addresses himself to a woman on the plat- 
form, and it is only in the second word that he appears in his rôle 
of “woman.” | 
ninarteqa gama 1 As I have a dreadfully jealous wife: 
gar’a'rsenopa'tin 2 She comes to abuse you! 
NOTES. — 1. ninarpog ‘is jealous’ (only used of a woman), namely on 
account of her husband’s relations with other women. — 2. Cf. WGr. qaqa- 
Jara‘ ‘scolds or blames one’ = E Gr. *дадтага` or qaqea'wa' (my informant 
used the latter form). The suffixes presumably answer to WGr. -siorin-ara‘tit 
(Kuannia said: -siunama:tin). No doubt the meaning of the whole is ‘here she 
comes (i. e. I come) in order to abuse you! 
No. 147. Qerterpoa — There Came a Hole in Me. 
Ajukutoog. 
The player dances in female attire and, during the song, exclaims 
gerterpoa ‘I am sprung, there (came) a hole in me’,* whereupon she 
flings herself on her seat on the platform, and continues her song thus: 
mak-iwakiwa mak-iwa'kiwa” ‘these here! these here! you yonder!’ 
Ajukutoog illustrated the meaning for me. He lay on his back 
on the platform, and put his wife’s kamiut-stick (wooden stick used 
