Inuit Drum Songs
January 8th, 2010 | By Nora Sawyer | Filed in INUIT, Inuit Culture/Art
Over at the Circumpolar Blog, George Lessard recently posted a video:
via Circumpolar Blog: Inuit Drum Song ;Arctic Bay, Nunavut, Canada.
The two girls in the video are singing a traditional melody, accompanied by a man playing a qilaut, or wind drum, made of stretched caribou skin.
Curious about the qilaut, I did some more research and came across another video this time played by Angaangaq Lyberth, an Inuit elder from Greenland.
Accompanying the video is a description of the instrument:
Qilaut, the Eskimo Wind Drum, is a circle that has no beginning nor ending, in which we all belong.



















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