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to soften the skin boots) in under his short trousers (naatseen); he 
said this was to represent membrum erigatum. 
NOTES. — 1 ge‘rterpoa must be the passive of the same word as WGr. 
дегтегра` ‘forces his way through it” Kuannia explained that it might be 
used about the bursting open of a closure when the fluid content exudes 
(е. g. excrements through the anus, ge'rlega'”pa); in games used, preferably, 
about a part of the body, or about the trousers which burst. — 2 mak'iwa:- 
kiwa (according to Kuannia) said of the persons (the men) in the house = 
ukorse-a*. I imagine that the word should be divided thus: mak-iwa ‘these 
(things) here’, and аК`поа ‘these (persons) there (south, down there e.g. at 
the other end of the house). By the former she probably means her trousers 
(naatseen), and by the latter the men in the house. 
No. 148. Ammattak. The Caplin. 
Kunnan. 
The player is made up as a woman whose name is Ammattak 
‘the caplin.’ She breaks off her song and dance by putting the drum- 
stick down between her toes while she sings: merpelip:oa тегрейр`оа 
‘I procure myself fish-meat!’ The drum-stick represents her fishing- 
spear, her toes the fish. My informant explained that she was catching 
a sea-scorpion and added: ilane ajikip'a:t ‘she does something which 
the others cannot imitate.’ 
No. 149. Merserpoaarter — The Woman Who Says: “I Sew.” 
Ajukutoog, Kunnay, Mitsuarnianna. 
Fig.68. Uaajeertoq player. The woman who pretends to seek for her 
lost sewing needle. (Drawing by Kaaralik 1906.) 
A 
The uajeertoq is made up as a woman who sits and sews. The 
drum is set aside. Presently she loses her needle and says in a vexed 
tone ha, mersel”ina tam'arqa‘ra “Oh, I lost my needle.’ She lights a 
peg (nanere:n) at one of the lamps and begins to search for the 
