The chanting, or howling, is accompanied by contortions of the body and by sounds from a rude tambourine, made from the throat membrane of a walrus stretched on a bow of ivory or bone.

The tapping of the rim with another piece of ivory or bone marks the time.

This is the Eskimo's only attempt at music.

Some women are supposed to possess the power of the angakok--a combination of the gifts of the fortune teller, the mental healer, and the psalmodist, one might say.
Once, years ago, my little brown people got tired of an angakok, one Kyoahpahdo, who had predicted too many deaths; and they lured him out on a hunting expedition from which he never returned.

But these executions for the peace of the community are rare.
Their burial customs are rather interesting.