92 An-koO-ting. [October, 1S«4. 



every bit of the flesh ; the fourth, to wet the flesli side and wrap it up 

 for thirty minutes, and then again scrape with the sek-JiOon; which last 

 operation is followed \)y chewing the skin all over, and again scraping 

 and cross-scraping with the instrument. Hiese laborious processes 

 Hall describes as resulting " in the breaking of the skin, making the 

 stiff hide soft-finished like the chamois-skin." The whole work is 

 often completed within an hour. 



Within the week which followed, an-koo-tiny was again practiced 

 in the igloos. On two occasions Ebierbing earnestly pleaded that the 

 an-ge-ko would relieve him from rheumatism with which he had 

 severely suffered. AVith Hall's consent he propitiated the an-ge-ko 

 by the present of one of his two-quart tin coffee-buckets. When 

 the hour came, a large deer-skin was susjjended in the back part 

 of the igloo. The an-ge-ko, who on this occasion proved to be 

 Ar-too-a, entered with three men and the old woman Ook-bar-loo, and 

 immediately asked that the light on the table, where Hall had seated 

 himself to take notes, should be put out. The wide-extended wick of 

 the Eskimo lamj) also was thumbed down, except a bit at one end, 

 which gave just light enough to make the scene gloomy and cold. 

 Tlie an-ge-ko then took off his boots, and, standing on the bed-place, 

 made a speech of about ten minutes, during which Mother Ook-har- 

 loo\s musical voice in the well-known song, "Am-na-yu-ya," contrasted 

 strangely witli tlie hoarse tones of the an-ge-ko, who sometimes made 

 the dome of tlu; snow-house shake. Ebierbing cried out from time to 

 time, ''At-tee! yl^^ee.'" (Good ! Good ! goon). ^?z-^e-A-o then shpped 

 quietly behind tlie curtain and made a sort of fluttering with his mit- 

 tened hands, occasionally uttering a few words which seemed to be in 

 tho tone of ])etition to the Great Unknown. When Ebierbing was 



