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Inuit dance near Nome 1900
Drummers at a dance near Nome in 1900.

The qilaut (Inuit: "that by means of which the spirits are called up", syllabic: ᕿᓚᐅᑦ) or qilaat (Greenlandic) is a type of frame drum native to the Inuit cultures of the Arctic.

The drum 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. It is beaten with a stick, the qatuk.

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