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    The Dance Festivals of the Alaskan Eskimo
    The Dance Festivals of the Alaskan Eskimo
    The Dance Festivals of the Alaskan Eskimo
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    The Dance Festivals of the Alaskan Eskimo

    By Ernest William Hawkes

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    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      The Dance Festivals of the Alaskan Eskimo - Ernest William Hawkes

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      Ernest William Hawkes

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      Title: The Dance Festivals of the Alaskan Eskimo

      Author: Ernest William Hawkes

      Release Date: September 6, 2008 [EBook #26544]

      Language: English

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      Transcriber’s Notes:

      1) For correct rendering of some diacritical marks please change browser default font to Arial.

      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

      ————————————————————————————

      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.[1] Yet even in the totem dances the pantomime is subordinate to the rhythm, or rather superimposed upon it, so that never a gesture or step of the characteristic native time is lost.

      This is a primitive 2-4 beat based on the double roll of the chorus of drums. Time is kept, in the men’s dances, by stamping the foot and jerking the arm in unison, twice on the right, then twice on the left side, and so on, alternately. Vigorous

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