SONGS 329

(4) Recorded as song VII D 19a, National Museum of Canada; singer, Jim
Pollard. This song was composed for, and used during the kusiut season of 1923-4;
the exact relationship of Sixman-a to Yakotfes could not be learnt.

(4) Sixman-a was being initiated into the kusiut society and this part of the song
describes, for the benefit of those who were not members, her experiences when she
discovered her repository. The theme states that she felt peculiar when she reached
its neighbourhood.

(c) An expression inserted to impress the uninitiated.

(d) Individual translations for these three subdivisions could not be obtained.

(e) When this song was being recorded on the phonograph, the performer erred
and substituted for this subdivision the following:

Glimuntaiasuais
where I went.

(f) One of the names of Yakot¥es. The theme here changes to the usual mourning
type, describing the experiences of the deceased.

(g) Referring to Mount Swakx near Kimsquit. :

(2) This mountain is said to have been an active volcano within the last century
and a half. The first ancestors of Yakotfes landed upon its slopes, hence the
mountain became wrapped up with their fortunes and showed its delight at wel-
coming one of their descendants.

(4) That is: Qakma rejoiced. She was one of his first ancestresses.

(j) That is: 9akm2 welcomed Yakot¥es.

(k) A house which figures in the origin myth of Yakot#es. It had the ability of
expanding to accommodate as many guests as assembled.

Song Used for..... (a) , Combined with Mourning for Qomanakwala(s)

A F@anslimaodja | Glésiainulitsdai | dixsuttimuttsandai
I(c) was in trouble, I was in fear, when I saw illuminate itself(¢)

dismatiakilasudai
the place of petrified power(e).

[WoRDLEss cHoRUS]

B Kénutnustimutqwisandai QSoménakwalasudax | ikén-extiwan-uxim
Is now established(f) Qoméanakwala(g) | at the place of

otdiskwatstaiamtisdax
his established name(A).

[woRDLEss cHoRUs] (2)

yes-énuximéxotsdéx | skdi-kpétitoyuqwisandax
Sanuximéxots(k) | and guided him around

C Kanuydlxikinumqwisandax
Welcomed him(/)

Glagwatttintaidmtisdax
the places of his crests(/).