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Mac took flashlight of the [illegible]
women and then of the men.
After this, the native drum (Kee-lau-tee)
was gotten out by Mac and Alma
sang, followed by Enaluh and
lustily by Anadwah who could
not resist. She had come to see
the fun, with cunning little
Tatara masked in her hood.
They sang two songs, I judged,
both in a minor key and seem-
ingly without distinct words.
The drum is simply a membrane
stretched over an oval frame and
beaten with an ivory or bone wand.
It is a small affair 15" or 16" long
and is the only native musical in-
strument of the tribe, Mac says
Almah is the best singer of the
crowd and her voice is not bad.
The boys complained that their legs were
cold in the long canvas and the women
that theirs were hot in the bearskin pants.
24 November Friday. Av-11.6°
C5, E5; 0, E5; 0, N27; 0, N27; WNE6. Max -9°
-12°; -12°; -11.1°; -11°; -12.1°. min -12.8°
A stormy, disagreeable day air being
thick with driving snow. Walked
to Dog Is. and back, wind very strong out in
fjord. Could not see a leaf mile.
Mac is enlarging his vocabulary every
day and learn a lot about the claims.
I developed three rolls of films. all
good.