. Arctic researches, and life among the Esquimaux;. ong night. The following night, November 26th, theatrical performancestook place on board the George Henry. The cabin was filled toits utmost capacity with Innuits and the ships crew. JimCrow, the son of Artarkparu, occupied the centre of the cabin,and was performing on the keeloun, while the other Innuitswere seated all around, the female portion singing to the made my way to the little after-cabin, and there seated nryselfso as to have a full view of what was going on. The keeloun was accompanied by a tambourine made by Ano
. Arctic researches, and life among the Esquimaux;. ong night. The following night, November 26th, theatrical performancestook place on board the George Henry. The cabin was filled toits utmost capacity with Innuits and the ships crew. JimCrow, the son of Artarkparu, occupied the centre of the cabin,and was performing on the keeloun, while the other Innuitswere seated all around, the female portion singing to the made my way to the little after-cabin, and there seated nryselfso as to have a full view of what was going on. The keeloun was accompanied by a tambourine made by Another instrument was a triangle, a steel square pend- * The koeloun is an instrument made by stretching a thin deerskin, or theskin of the whales liver, upon a wooden or whalebone hoop about thirty inches indiameter, forming something not very unlike the tambourine known in this coun-try. It is held, however, by a handle, and the player strikes, not the skin, but thehoop, accompanying his music by an uncouth sort of dance. GOOD TIME IN GENEUAL. 469. TLAVINO TUB KKELOUN. ent from a tow string, and struck with an iron spoon. Thekeeloun was played in turn by Annawa, Ooksin, Koojesse, andyoung Smith, a la negro ! While Annawa was going through the sweating process, playing the instrument and dancing the ridic-ulously wild figures that are indispensable, according to Innuitideas, his music being accompanied by a full chorus of native fe-male voices, there came bouncing into the very midst a strappingnegress, setting the whole house in a roar of laughter. It wasyoung Smith dressed in this character. The tambourine was*passed into his hands, and he soon did full justice to the instru-ment, his or her sable fists soon knocking a hole through thewhales liver skin with which it was covered. When Smith first entered some of the Innuit women were 470 ARCTIC RESEARCH EXPEDITION. much frightened. Jennie, the angeko, was seated near me, andshe tried to put as great a distance as possible betwe
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