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Eskimo Ritualistic
Dance is Witnessed
bv School Teacher
The following interesting account
of an old time Eskimo ritual dance
was written by James Pendleton, al
umnus of the University of Alaska
while teaching a government school
at Kiana, on the Kobuk river dur
ing the past year.
It was but a few years ago that the
Eskimo tom-tom or kilyone, so call
ed in the native tongue, beat out
weird time to the accompaniment of
a medley of guttural voices chanting
some story of the hunt or battle
with an adjacent tribe. Emotions
of native dancers waxed uncontroll
ably higher as the pulsating time of
the ensuing ritual developed.
\ Along the West Coast the native
dance or ah-lah-pak-took can still
occasionally be witnessed in a modi
fied form, though mostly disjoined
from any significant ceremony. The
now jovial affairs have been varieg
ated by the white mans influence.
A rather crude reconstruction of
the old dance was recently demon
strated in Kiana. Kiana is a small
village of mosty Eskimos, seventy
five miles up river from the mouth
of the Kobuk.
Only the older ones, those who
could recall the traditional songs
and rhythms, participated. And be
cause of the rather intolerant atti
tude of the local mission, only the
pagans would cooperate in re-enact
ing this impressive custom.
_ A tanned seal skin, after soaking
in water, was stretched over a small
tub—the improvised kilyone. As in
former days small willow twigs were
peeled and served as drum sticks,
called in Eskimo, cahr-sone.
White and copper spectators squeez
ed into the little log schoolhouse.
One or two old women came with
their chins tatooed the indelible
blue- living prototypes of an ancient
practice fast fading into antiquity.
Old men came, their long locks
■ of former times now shorn in ac
cordance with the custom of the
more astute white intruders, yet
agile with visages toughened by
long encounters in the open.
Finally the rustic walls of the
little log school resounded with the
drum beats which timed the weird
chantings. Limbs and muscles of
animated dancers responded in sol
, emn and synchronized gestures. Feet
garbed in guady mukluks toughened
by long encounters in the tempo of
this primeval revelry.
Perspiring even more than the
dancers was the aged drummer, his
only and surname, Munyuk (mean-j
ing something that has been chew
ed), who half sang, half chanted
with all the gusto of his personality
and a renewed delight of youth, the
old forgotten tunes. Utterings,
some meaningless, some in native
tongue bowled from his throat with
every detonation of the kilyone.
But a short repartee was this 3
hour revival compared with those
witnessed three decades ago by some
of the early Alaskan gold seekers. I
Eskimo dances then were spectacul
ar affairs. Fanatic paroxisms were
at their zenith. And individual en
durance was tried until one by one
aboriginal participants dropped out
: in breathless exhaustion.
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pt to have the case disposed of in a
particular way. It is said that to rule
otherwise than urged by advocates
holding no brief in the particular
cause would mean much to the coun
try. The question is: What is right
and what is wrong. The consequen
ces are of no moment. The axe
should fall, regardless of the direc
tion in which the chips fly. It is
to be hoped that so advanced a ben
ch as the Supreme Court of the Un
ited States will not write its decision
by the light of such uncertain cand
les as expediency or rlamor from
beyond the walls of the quiet judi
cial chamber.
What was going on a century ago,
in the year 1835? As to politics, the
fiery and determined Andrew Jack
son was President. An insane man
took a shot at him in the capitol and
a senator was charged with compli
city but was exonerated. The
democratic national convention nom
inated Martin Van Buren who foll
owed Mr. Jackson into the White
House in 1836, after a close race
with Gen. Wm. Henry Harrison. In
1835, Richard R. Bland, champion
of free silver was born. James K.
Polk destined for the Presidency
was Speaker of the House. Finan
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ernment greatly in those days, the
national debt being less than forty
thousand dollars. Likely enough,
the three new mints estabished that
year could have wiped out the defi
cit in short order. Samuel Colt in
vented the revolver and Morse the
telegraph. A fire which raged for
two days in New York City, left
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ion dollars in its wake. A man do
micied in Texas was not within the
boundaries of the United States sin
ce it was in 1835 that Texas pro
claimed her independence from
Mexico becoming later the Lone
Star State and thereby adding to
the federal union an area approxi
mately equal to that of Germany.
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ances and woes but we have to go
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say that the oldtimers of the ore sen!
day had it easy with nothing but
small money matters of some kind
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