Ethnographical collections from East Greenland. 



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the skin itself, which probably would not be able to stand this 

 treatment for a very long time, but only against the lower border 

 of the wooden hoop^). 



a Ъ 



Fig. 361. Drum-sticks 

 (Holm coll.). Mt. 



Fig. 362. Handle of a drum. 

 (Holm coll.). 1/2. 



Fig. 360. Two drums. (Holm coll.). Ц&. 



Technical names. — qilaa^n drum, (specially the wooden hoop 

 of the drum); isia the skin of it; kitiigaa the string tightened round 

 it; kilikirpia the groove for the string round the hoop; kattälua, 



1) With regard to the rhythm of the drumming and the song and dance I may 

 refer to Hjalmar Thuren's and my own work on the Eskimo music in Greenland 

 (1911) p. 



12 — 14 etc. Illustration of the drum and drumming men figs. 2 — 4. 



Cf. Kruuse (1912) figs. 2—5. 

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