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river and northern Alaskan Eskimos. Pissuak and Allikammik both gave aton 

 dances, preceded by a pisik. . The latter was carrying her baby on her back when 

 she began, but finding it too heavy, she handed it over to her husband. The 

 Kanghiryuak natives gave a return dance on the following day, and others were 

 held as long as the two groups remained together; they were less formal than 

 those described, but otherwise differed in no essential respect.' 



'Cf. Stefansson, My Life with the Eskimo, p. 186. 



23333—151 



