DCHP-3

drum song

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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among Eskimos, a song accompanied by drum music.

See: drum dance(def. 1)

Quotations

1946
Every Eskimo man has at least one song which he makes up and teaches to his wife, who in turn teaches the other women in the camp. The women sing while the man drums and dances. Some of the men have several songs, and there are Eskimos with as many as twenty or thirty.