344 W. THALBITZER. 
funvara‘ne 6 In his tool-box 
tamas’iariga 7 It was lost to me, 
порт esimalernik 8 With your knowledge, 
за‘ теги 9 With your understanding of it. 
mat ane риа 10 Nevertheless I did nothing to him, 
anttokaje: 11 Your deceased father, 
ndk:twikaje: 12 Your deceased author, 
mata™na nuliawin nega 13 On the other hand your wife fed on him, 
ayane aman'ecuiga' 14 Angannee there up north |?| made a meal 
on him |?] 
cin,acergü агпегрий" 15 I wonder you yourself were not on the 
point of being revengeful. 
NOTES. — 1-2. anita’ “his father’ is here used in a poetical or oldfashioned 
style; nak'iwia ‘his procreator’ is the common substitutional word. — 4. -aje'm 
is probably a distortion of -ajim:.— 5. ВОт. kate for kate? cf. WGr. kato ‘the 
drum-stick’; -ga ‘my’; -li (-le) ‘and’ or ‘but.’ — 7. tam-arsiarpog ‘it has become 
lost.’ — 9. Namely through the information of others; -lernik instead of -ner- 
nik. — 10. (Cf. 13) mata'ne more correctly таЁа’?па ‘although’ cf. WGr. 
mas’a + una. The meaning is (according to Kuannia) ‘although I did not be- 
become angry at it or let him notice my anger, yet he sang at me!’ — 14. Ac- 
cording to the explanations of the informant and of Johan Petersen, Angan- 
nee was the name of Kunnitse’s wife. The following word seems to be dis- 
torted, and should presumably be divided in two: ana (= a’n‘a) n'ecuiga: (?). 
Sufia, however, gave quite another explanation of this line: an‘an-‘e-cuiga 
= ananiarLugo ajortumik perqunak ‘he (or she?) would have saved him 
(or her). — 15. < ciyasüt'oq ‘one who is envious or revengeful.’ 
No. 188. The Drum-Singer on his Sledge. 
Akernilik (DD and Phon.). 
Akernilik communicated 
the text to me on two different 
occasions, with an interval of 
two months, and in addition he 
sang the song into my phono- 
graph, with the full refrain (cf. 
Mel. 79). Ukuttiaq also knew 
this song, which was considered 
an old song accompanied with 
loud shouts (qaleewaarter). 
The refrains and burdens 
of this song are grouped, as 
is the case in all drum-songs, 
in regular stanzas or strophes. 
The arrangement of a complete 
Fig. 86. The dog team at a brisk trot on the fjord SONG win Коте grouped 
ice (Taseesaq off the trading-place. February 1906. about the burdens may be seen 
W..T. phot.). on page 170. 
