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Fig. 72. Two men in a drum-contest. (Drawing by Kaaralik. Ammassalik 1906.) 
V. JURIDICAL DRUM SONGS 
A. MEN’S ATTACK- AND RETORT-SONGS 
No. 166. Song of attack on Pitsaniarmaat. 
Attiartertoq. 
Attiartertoq explained to me that this р15е4, or song of attack, con- 
cerned an event which occured far to the north in the now uninhabited bay 
Fig. 73. Kaakajik (May 1906. W. T.) 
Refrain ajayja qå”n'a'ja 
Burden 
silåti kilinakajik 
l’nerner kilinakaje: 
of Kialeeq (= Kialinek on the maps), 
in 67° N. lat. Here at the time, lived 
his uncle, the author of the song, a 
proud, well-to-do sealer who would not 
tolerate offensive allusions to his having 
maltreated his wife, even if this were the 
case. But the expression of Pitsaniarmaat, 
his opponent, really hid more than an 
insult: it roused the singer’s suspicion 
that he was his wife’s accomplice. The 
singer had chastised his wife because a 
hole or gash had shown itself in his 
kaiak-skin, which she had sewn, so that 
there was a risk of its filling when first 
he rowed out, and of his drowning. His 
song intimates that he entertains a sus- 
picion that it is Pitsaniarmaat who has 
occasioned the spoiling of the cover. 
The form of the song is mild and iron- 
ical, but the encysted accusation is hard. 
Its introduction (1. 1—5) is possibly bor- 
rowed from an older poem. 
1 Ah, how doubtful I feel about it! 
2 How I feel doubt at having to sing, 
e-lome: pe''sän-i'sume 3 In my soul, which is not strong! 
pit:ise-ta:miak:o 
4 However could it occur to me to make a song 
of charge against him. 
