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The Dance Festivals of the Alaskan Eskimo
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2) There are a number of words in the native language that appear to mean the same thing, but have different accents. It is unknown if this is intentional or a printing error - these have been left as printed.
eg: Nuleága / núleaga ... Takináka / takínaka / Takinaka ... Wáhok / wahok
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
THE UNIVERSITY MUSEUM
ANTHROPOLOGICAL PUBLICATIONS
Vol. VI No. 2
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THE DANCE FESTIVALS OF THE
ALASKAN ESKIMO
BY
E. W. HAWKES
PHILADELPHIA
PUBLISHED BY THE UNIVERSITY MUSEUM
1914
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
This account of the Dance Festivals of the Alaskan Eskimo was written from material gathered in the Bering Strait District during three years’ residence: two on the Diomede Islands, and one at St. Michael at the mouth of the Yukon River. This paper is based on my observations of the ceremonial dances of the Eskimo of these two localities.
PHONETIC KEY
ā, ē, ī, ō, ū, long vowels.
a, e, i, o, u, short vowels.
ä, as in hat.
â, as in law.
ai, as in aisle.
au, as ow in how.
h, w, y, semivowels.
c, as sh in should.
f, a bilabial surd.
g, as in get.
ǵ, a post-palatal sonant.
k, as in pick.
l, as in lull.
m, as in mum.
n, as in nun.
ng, as ng in sing.
p, as in pipe.
q, a post-palatal surd.
ṙ, a uvular sonant spirant.
s, as in sauce.
t, an alveolar stop.
tc, as ch in chapter.
v, a bilabial sonant.
z, as in zone.
THE DANCE FESTIVALS OF THE ALASKAN ESKIMO
THE DANCE IN GENERAL
The ceremonial dance of the Alaskan Eskimo is a rhythmic pantomime—the story in gesture and song of the lives of the various Arctic animals on which they subsist and from whom they believe their ancient clans are sprung. The dances vary in complexity from the ordinary social dance, in which all share promiscuously and in which individual action is subordinated to rhythm, to the pantomime totem dances performed by especially trained actors who hold their positions from year to year according to artistic merit.