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be the acquaintance (or relation) referred to, a man, according to Kuannia. — 
4. Compare a similar expression in Maratti’s drum song (Kruuse no.6), which 
begins ‘let me raise myself aloft, let me take to myself a song from the olden 
time. The forefathers’ songs are thought to be in the heavens, and to be 
fetched down or to fall down from there. — 8. Explained by Kuannia as 
‘through this (pointing at his mouth), through his mouth (word). Other- 
wise it seems that a closer translation would be ‘hither’, as the following 
line could then be understood as derived from e:rfawoq (‘would you have 
travelled hither?). — 9. While J. Petersen conceived e:rionaliwarpit as con- 
nected with WGr. inertawoq Kuannia explained it as being derived from 
ertorpon (WGr. inortorpog). — 12 (cf. 15). ak’oa might from its form signify 
‘those there down south, but the context makes it probable that it is the 
name Ak"ko with the vocative a added. -ma-e:niceg is contracted from -ma- 
rajin‘iceg, in which -raji(k) perhaps signifies ‘a high degree’ (of stupidity).— 
14. Perhaps from ilalerpa’, which means the same as ilale-n'arpa: ‘puts up 
with what another does’; the attached -me” (or те’п) < -m'iwoq seems to 
have deploring significance. Otherwise cf. ilale:pa: (WGr. ilaliup:a’) ‘adds it to 
something. — 15—16. Or perhaps ‘he (his song) exercises his effect (on me)’, 
cf. WGr. sun-erpa: [?]. 
No. 184. AkYko's Drum Song about his Wife. 
Qiwinadaaq. 
This 1$ not a drum-contest song, but a solo, a kind of complaint in 
which the singer explains his position, difficult at present on account of the 
misfortune which has befallen him. He is not competing with a scoffing op- 
ponent, but making an appeal to sympathetic country men. 
Pujooq (1. 15) was the name of AkYko's wife (Ajukutook’s mother) who 
left him. 
piciara арегзпоаК`поа 1 My little drum song is still of no use 
to me 
aterpi ca: шк 2 For lack of opportunity to sing it, 
ine pica nik 3 For lack of a frame to expand it in(?). 
o‘âle tipuake-kun-e 4 But over there at [linuakkeeq’s — 
piniå tca"nup:a 5 I wonder if opportunity can be got 
there ? 
ete it’ tune 6 Behaving like a being 
па: tserso‘lerajik 7 Who hesitates while he measures his 
opponent — 
alterpisame'ginor 8 If there may come an opportunity to 
sing it there ? 
in:episame'ginor 9 If there may be found a frame to 
expand it there? |?| 
elite ile‘ tune 10 He behaves like a doll 
