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26544	Hawkes, Ernest William	The Dance Festivals of the Alaskan Eskimo			.txt	text/plain	9673	682	79	This account of the Dance Festivals of the Alaskan Eskimo was written THE DANCE FESTIVALS OF THE ALASKAN ESKIMO presentation of the festival dance-songs. With few exceptions, all dances take place in the village kásgi or The Dance Festivals of the Alaskan Eskimo are held during that cold, The Asking Festival, which begins the round of feasting and dancing, Bladder Feast, if a large number of Eskimos have died in the interim. essence of the offerings) until the great Feast to the Dead takes The dance contests in the Inviting-In Feast resemble the nith songs On the first day of the Great Feast the villagers welcome the guests. The feast givers or n['ä]skut assemble in the kásgi the second day, During the dancing the children of the village gather in the kásgi, sufficient to show their place in the Eskimo festival dances. Arrangement of Kásgi during the Great Feast to the Dead.	./cache/26544.txt	./txt/26544.txt