[3] This custom appears to be widespread. Low writes of the Hudson Bay Eskimo: “During the absence of the men on hunting expeditions, the women sometimes amuse themselves by a sort of female “angekoking.” This amusement is accompanied by a number of very obscene rites....” Low, The Cruise of the Neptune, p. 177.
[4] Literally “Heads” or directors of the feasts.
[5] The order of the seating on the inǵlak of invited guests is a matter of great concern to the Eskimo, as it is an indication of worth.
Children purchase their right to a seat in the kásgi by making presents, through their parents, to all the inmates, kásgimiut.
Until they do so they have no right to enter. For the same reason strangers on entering the kásgi offer a small present to the headman, who divides it among the people.
[6] Tcáuyak, Yukon dialect.
[7] Lóftak, Yukon dialect.
[8] Múmra, Yukon dialect.
[9] Tungrálik, Yukon dialect.
[10] Tungrániyak, Yukon dialect.