The Dance Festivals of the Alaskan Eskimo

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

Vol. VI No. 2
————————————————————————————
BY E. W. HAWKES
PHILADELPHIA PUBLISHED BY THE UNIVERSITY MUSEUM 1914


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.

ā, ē, ī, ō, ū, long vowels.
a, e, i, o, u, short vowels.