qilaut
Sign in to savethumb|upright|Drum dancing, Gjoa Haven, [[Nunavut, Canada, 2019]] thumb|Drummers at a dance near Nome in 1900. The qilaut (Inuit language: "that by means of which the spirits are called up", syllabic: ᕿᓚᐅᑦ), (Inuinnaqtun: qilaun or qilauti or Greenlandic: qilaat ) is a type of frame drum native to the Inuit cultures of the Arctic.
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thumb|upright|Drum dancing, Gjoa Haven, [[Nunavut, Canada, 2019]] thumb|Drummers at a dance near Nome in 1900. The qilaut (Inuit language: "that by means of which the spirits are called up", syllabic: ᕿᓚᐅᑦ), (Inuinnaqtun: qilaun or qilauti 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.