Eskimo Music by Region : A Comparative Circumpolar Study (National Museum of Man - Mercury Series - Canadian Ethnology Service Paper No. 32)

vii, 222 pages. 28 cm. Printed card cover. Illustrated with 38 plates (b/w photographs) + 9 song transcriptions and musical scores). References cited. "This preliminary report, funded by the National Science Foundation, demonstrates that Alaskan Eskimo musical subareas coincide approx. with Eskimo language (not dialect), areas in Alaska. They are part of a distinct, western musical complex which, together with the music of the Eskimo of Siberia and of the Mackenzie Delta in Northwest Canada, contrasts with Eskimo music in Central and East Canada, and in West, Northwest and East Greenland" (from abstract). Office stamp at bottom of title-page. Else a tight, bright and clean book.