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334 THE BELLA COOLA INDIANS

Abx axdjant olataiaoa
Come(c), let us lie down together not far away.

(a) Recorded as song VII D 33b, National Museum of Canada; singer, Jim
Pollard. This is the type of song sung by a group of women on a picnic.

(4) It was impossible to obtain individual translations for these three sub-
divisions.

(c) This is addressed to another man.

Woman's Love Song(a)

Kismétidudjaia | diyupinkstaiyatsdai yao otdisinax aiyagolosti
I do not want him to lie down with me that slave Qolosti(s).
Axtaxyaigotsamnu ganuxom-tken-u kaipainuxetsx™”

Don’t go too far down(c) or you will be unable to stop defecating(d).

ské-noponixetsxw'
how disconsolate I am!

Skimédicitomiixtts
I went to sleep,

siipadjinutdjinu
I dreamt of you(e),

(a) Recorded as song VII D 38c, National Museum of Canada; singer, Jim
Pollard.

(4) Qolosti was a man who specialized in composing songs that mocked women,
hence the singer used his name in this derogatory manner in retaliation.

(c) The implication is that her lover had been fondling her face, and that she
did not wish him to touch her body. The three parts of this song have no apparent
relationship to one another.

(d) It was impossible to obtain individual translations for these two subdivisions.
The introduction of the obscene expression is unexplained.

(e) Referring to her lover.

ANIMAL SONGS
Fishing Song(a)
This song is sung by boys as they cast for trout.

Waitutupén-ai-, | wasdénukxmits | wasinukxmits

Come along, trout(4), I want to triumph, I want to triumph,

yao titqwaktinao ittutupéni

trout.

over you biggest

Gtsitutupén-i
I fish for trout.

Atsitutupéni
I fish for trout,