qilaut
Illustration — Drum dancing, Gjoa Haven, Nunavut, Canada, 2019 • Illustration — Drummers at a dance near Nome in 1900. The qilaut (Inuit language: "that by means of which the spirits are called up", syllabic: ᕿᓚᐅᑦ), (Inuinnaqtun: qilaun or qilauti or Greenlandic: qilaat) is a type of frame drum native to the Inuit cultures of the Arctic. The drum, used in Inuit music, is distinctive in that it has a handle and is made of caribou skin, which is not particularly resonant, giving it a dull, rumbling sound.
qilaut
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The frame of the drum with a stick, the qatuk (katuun / katuut / katuuti) and the act of beating the drum is called katuktuq. Most dances, qilaujjaqtuq, also involve singing, known as ingiuqtuq or pihiq, and the dancer is called qilaujjaqtuq. Nunavut, Canada holds a songwriting contest, known as Qilaut, every year to cherish Inuktut music.
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- 1.Lucien Lévy-Bruhl. Primitives and the supernatural. Haskell House Publishers, 1973 , , pg 132.
- 2.Lucien Schneider. Ulirnaisigutiit: An Inuktitut-English Dictionary of Northern Quebec, Labrador, and Eastern Arctic Dialects (with an English-Inuktitut Index). Presses Université Laval. 299–. 1985. 978-2-7637-7065-9.
- 3.Qilaut. Canada: Government of Nunavut: (Culture, Language, Heritage and Art).
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