The Eskimo Drum Dance

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Arima, E.Y.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1974
• Subjects: Buoys; Fast ice; Ice forecasting; Mathematical models; Movement; Sea ice; M'Clure Strait; N.W.T; Parry Channel; N.W.T./Nunavut; Viscount Melville Sound; Coronation Gulf; Melville Sound; Nunavut; Parry; The Handle; Arctic; eskimo*
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65906

The drum dance which combines the booming beat of a large tambourine drum with poetic song and dance is perhaps the most pleasurable and intense expression of Eskimo culture. This art is particularly refined among the Copper Eskimos around Coronation Gulf. . Drum dancing used to take place mainly in...