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were no true musical instruments except the primitive flageolet of 
eastern Canada. 
They had many varieties of songs — dance songs, game songs, 
ritual songs, songs of war, of love, and of medicine — not every variety, 
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A Coronation Oiilf Eskimo with his dritra. (Photo hy 
(1. Ifuhert WillchisJ 
of course, invariably present in every tribe. Most of them contained 
only a few significant words, many none at all, but merely vocables, 
for the words were generally of minor importance except in mocking 
songs like the nith songs of the Hudson Bay and Greenland Eskimo. 
