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with something’ (for example, badly smelling food). But to me, the interpre- 
tation seems quite uncertain. — 5. According to Kuannia, amisersin‘ip:0q is 
used of badly smelling meat or skin (cf. WGr. amicsaq). 
No. 164. A Woman’s Drum Song. 
Attiartertoq. 
Attiartertog mentioned this song as an uaajeerneq, but it is more 
like the fragment of a drum song or tiwaleq (perhaps used in com- 
bination with the game of putting out the lamps). 
uip'idip'in 1 Your dear bad husband’s, 
usuquajua 2 His dear membrum 
ertiniaqajin 3 Do you want to have it for your self alone? 
erlinuapat 4 How reluctantly she will part with it! 
No. 165. I Found an Opening. 
AakWkaaq. 
This song was described as a tiwaleq by the reciter (Akernilik’s 
wife), but she refused to explain the words. | 
Sipip'oa I got a rent in my clothes, unfortunately, 
When I went to the mountains 
At the sea-side of the north land, 
Carrying my wallet. 
1 
majudt-armeama 2 
3 
4 
qanertusti tusa‘rise 5 Would that you may get to hear 
6 
7 
8 
9 
kiata: awalernane 
po:rartilartiwa 
uwanitut tusa'risa 
oqaluarta'nise 
cipera’lega'puk 
uc'ula'raleqa'q 
Just the same as we have got to hear! 
Would that you may tell it as latest news 
That we both got a rent in our clothes. 
There was, indeed, a new vulva 
qulere‘tuänik 10 While we lay the one above the other. 
Notes. — 1. Cf. WGr. sipiwuya ‘I got a rent (in my clothes)” According 
to Kuannia’s understanding of this song, it deals with a case of sexual per- 
versity (“he became a woman”). — 3. ‘The north land’, i. e. the north coast 
close to the house or tent where they live. — 4. po:rarti- < po-rdt-a(q)? ‘skin 
pouch, wallet; bag for picking berries etc. The remaining -lartiwa may be 
explained as answering to WGr. -lis:arpon ‘carries it (his weapon etc.) with 
him when going out.’ -tilartiwa must in that case be considered as contracted 
from -talilartiwa. — 5. qanertusü cf. WGr. ganortule or qanortoq ili se ‘would 
that you—! — 7. The meaning is probably: “deliver yourself to the talk and 
twaddle.” — 8. The stem of the word (cipe = Isipe-) is undoubtedly to be 
understood as the same word as in 1. 1.— 10. quiere:t is used of things (seals, 
etc.) which lie terraced, or in layers, one above the other (on the ice or th 
rocks). | 
