Qilaut

The qilaut (Inuit language: "that by means of which the spirits are called up",[1] syllabic: ᕿᓚᐅᑦ[2]), (Inuinnaqtun: qilaun or qilauti[3] or Greenlandic: qilaat ) is a type of frame drum native to the Inuit cultures of the Arctic.

The drum, used in Inuit music, is distinctive in that it has a handle and is made of caribou skin, which is not particularly resonant, giving it a dull, rumbling sound.

The frame of the drum with a stick, the qatuk (katuun / katuut / katuuti[4]) and the act of beating the drum is called katuktuq.[4] Most dances, qilaujjaqtuq,[5] also involve singing, known as ingiuqtuq[6] or pihiq,[7] and the dancer is called qilaujjaqtuq.[8]

Nunavut, Canada holds a songwriting contest, known as Qilaut, every year to cherish Inuktut music.[9]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Lucien Lévy-Bruhl. Primitives and the supernatural. Haskell House Publishers, 1973 ISBN 0-8383-1589-5, ISBN 978-0-8383-1589-7, pg 132.
  2. ^ Lucien Schneider (1985). Ulirnaisigutiit: An Inuktitut-English Dictionary of Northern Quebec, Labrador, and Eastern Arctic Dialects (with an English-Inuktitut Index). Presses Université Laval. pp. 299–. ISBN 978-2-7637-7065-9. Retrieved 10 November 2012.
  3. ^ Ohokak, Kadlun & Harnum 1996, p. 132.
  4. ^ a b Ohokak, Kadlun & Harnum 1996, p. 48.
  5. ^ Ohokak, Kadlun & Harnum 1996, p. 78.
  6. ^ Ohokak, Kadlun & Harnum 1996, p. 39.
  7. ^ Ohokak, Kadlun & Harnum 1996, p. 69.
  8. ^ Ohokak, Kadlun & Harnum 1996, p. 127.
  9. ^ "Qilaut". Canada: Government of Nunavut: (Culture, Language, Heritage and Art). Retrieved November 6, 2025.

References

Ohokak, Gwen; Kadlun, Margo; Harnum, Betty (1996). Inuinnaqtun to English Dictionary. Retrieved January 19, 2026.


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