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No. 151. Qamucercer — The Sledge Driver. 
Mitsuarnianna. 
The player is a man made up as a woman, who sits as far in on 
the platform as possible, and pretends to drive a sledge (Fig. 70). 
No. 152. Anaalakaarter — She Who Cries: “Let me trounce them.” 
Mitsuarnianna. 
Fig. 71. Uaajeertoq player. Let me trounce them! (Drawing by Kaaralik 1906.) 
A man made up as a woman, with his nose turned up with a 
string across his face (cf. nos. 120, 140, 142), pursues the others and 
exclaims ana‘taka:: (-ka in a high shout and with a falling tone) 
‘let me trounce them!’ 
C. TIWALIN, WOMEN’S SOLO DANCES WITH REFRAIN 
AND BREAKS (nos. 153—165) 
No. 153. The Cleaning. 
Aleqaajik. 
A dancing woman, a woman tiwaleq, first lowers the drum by 
bending her body and extending her arms downwards to the left, 
and then raises it by stretching her arms upward to the right. The 
song’s refrain is broken by the following words: 
at a‘iuin ? ergate-tut? 1 The wretched small fingers are full of dirt, 
salirilak:a 2 Let me clean them! 
sale‘, sale:: 3 Clean, clean! 
NOTE. — 1 = ac'arajuin (Kuannia). — 2 Kuannia presumed that the word 
signified ergerse:rter ‘one who picks lice’, cf. ergerse-rtak:a ‘the lice-eggs I have 
picked off” But my informant’s explanation points to the above translation 
(ergalüt’oq from егда < *ipega). 
