(;y(; THK CKXTKAI, KSKIMO. 



The EskiiiKj leave them t(j get their driukijig cup.s and tlie qailerte- 

 tang awake to new life. Each man fills his sealskin with water, 

 passes a cu^d to them, and inquires about the future, about the 

 fortunes of the hunt and the events of life. The qailertetang answer 

 in murmurs which the questioner must interpret for himself. 



The evening is spent in jDlaying ball, which is whipped all around 

 the settlement (ajuktaqtung). (See Appendix, Note 6.) 



This feast is celebrated as here described in Cumberland Sound and 

 Nugumiut. Hall and Kumlien make a few observations in regard 

 to it, but the latter has evidently misunderstood its meaning. His 

 description is as follows (p. 43) : 



An angakoq dresses himself up in the most liideous manner, having several pairs 

 of pants on among the rest, and a horrid looking mask of skins. The men and 

 women now range themselves in separate and opposite ranks, and the angakoq takes 



