For Hunting Sea-Game.
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For Hunting Sea-Game.
6. For Hunting Sea-Game.1
This is an incantation for (hunting) sea-game. When hunters, having gone out in a boat, have found a herd of walrus sleeping on the ice, and the ice is not solid, (so that) the boat makes a noise striking against small pieces of ice floating around, but the walrus are sleeping; oh, one makes (the following) incantation, and says, —
"O walrus! I put your ears on a (broad) iron pan, lest you [the walrus] should be able to hear the rapping-noise [the sleeping walrus]." Then the hunters are (able) to approach, and catch all (of the herd).
Told by Vịyênto´ the Blind, a Maritime Chukchee man, at Mariinsky Post, October, 1900.
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