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PLAYING THE u KEELOUN." 



ent from a tow string, and struck with an iron spoon. The 

 keeloun was played in turn by Annawa, Ooksin, Koojesse, and 

 young Smith, d la negro ! While Annawa was going through the 

 "sweating" process, playing the instrument and dancing the ridic- 

 ulously wild figures that are indispensable, according to Innuit 

 ideas, his music being accompanied by a full chorus of native fe- 

 male voices, there came bouncing into the very midst a strapping 

 negress, setting the whole house in a roar of laughter. It was 

 young Smith dressed in this character. The tambourine was 

 passed into his hands, and he soon did full justice to the instru- 

 ment, his or her sable fists soon knocking a hole through the 

 whale's liver skin with which it was covered. 



When Smith first entered some of the Innuit women were 



