530 W. THALBITZER. 
(Song) tuluan'uaq ax‘ atuarqisoqg 1 Dear little Raven who otherwise 
could paint so well 
lo*L'isuarmik aL'än'eq nalusoq 2 An Arctic loon, no longer knows 
how to paint. 
(Phon.) {ulua gernep aL'ätuarqgisapor 3 If you paint a raven entirely 
iL‘uarme'k. black, that is right enough. 
VARIANTS (Phon.). — 1 az’dt’uagisoyoar. — 2. al’äna"alv-lerpog. 
No. 280. The dear little Fox. 
Judithe Barcellaisen (DD and Phon., Egedesminde, 1905). 
Mel. no. 132. (Cf. Phon. Study р. 385 по. 100 and text р. 310 no. 100.) 
kak-a-jäm'uarzo pa’y’anu® 1 When dear little Kakaajaq and I were 
wrestling 
sinliy uak'a kip'iwari 2 He bit my tiny ears right off. 
uwanale akin-uarLono 3 But I gave it to him again. 
> 
ake wara I bit him in return. 
NOTE. — Cf. Phon. аёа’апиага- perhaps instead of kak-a:januara- ‘my 
dear little fox < kaka:jaq, ‘that which says ka‘ka‘q, i.e. that which barks 
like a fox. A fox’s bark sounds thus to an Eskimo: ka-ka-ka (cf. no. 261). 
No. 281. The dear little salmon trout. 
Judithe Barcellaisen (DD and Phon. 1905) 
(Egedesminde with variants from Jakobshayn and Umanak). 
Mel. no. 130. Cf. Phon. Study p. 375 no. 4, cf. p. 386 and text p. 291, no. 4. 
The lament of the widow of the male salmon-trout. The kaiak paddler 
has slain her husband by hitting him with his paddle, and what will now 
become of her young children? My variants from the more northerly places 
explain my text from Egedesminde. . 
nome kanän'a nuisarigame 1 When he became visible around the 
point down there 
Jie Woe, woe! 
pa:"tin'uame а’’рилагторй 2 The blades of his oars were stained 
from his blood 
Jae Woe, woe! 
qiornan'uane itorpasin'artut 3 His dear little children stood peeping 
for him 
Jge Woe, woe! 
qitornapuane aniatiLonit 4 His tiny children, he made them go 
forth, 
Jae: Woe, woe! 
VARIANTS (Phon.). — 1. пизага‘пате’ ja'je'e. — 2. a’pit'artone: ja'je'e — 
3. iorpas'in‘arto't. — 3-4. ja‘jece.. 
