Compilation - Inuit Drum Dances Of Western Arctic

Format: 7"
Label: CBC Northern Service QCS 1459
Year: 1979
Origin: Canada
Genre: First Nations, Inuit, folk
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Release Type: Singles
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Playlist: Inuit northern songs, CBC Northern Service and Related Recordings, Arctic Inuit Pisiq songs, Indigenous Canada

	Track Name	Length
1	Dance depicts Kitigaluit Village at mouth of Mackenzie River NWT	01:09
2	Dancers swirl and stamp about difficulties on river bank	01:24
3	Celebration at dark times of year. Shake arms, stamp feet, think of good times ahead	02:09
4	Early morning on the land. Trapper wakens but decides to rest. Dancers stretch groan of such laziness	01:38

	Track Name	Length
1	See ducks on the lake! They preen skip and soar. Dancers imitate motions	01:48
2	Hunter angry about his first musket-loading rifle. Aims, misfires. Motions of smashing musket against rocks	02:43
3	Prize seal caught. Dance rendered with motions of hauling, lifting to cadence of caribou skin drum	02:29

Inuit Drum Dances Of Western Arctic

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