DCHP-2
angakok [< Esk.] DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
an Eskimo shaman.
See also: medicine-man (def. 2) shaman
- 1823 Thus, for example, when they became scarce . . . when the evil genius took away . . . the animals which constitute the principal food of the Enuee, our Angekok was employed to bring them back again.
- 1906 Some of my natives wished to go up to the camping-place of the Southampton natives, and get them to practise their angakok art and see what was the cause of the whale acting so badly....
- 1964 Apart from the opposition of some angakoks, or conjurers, Christianity had easy play with the ancient Eskimo range of ideas.
- 1823 Thus, for example, when they became scarce . . . when the evil genius took away . . . the animals which constitute the principal food of the Enuee, our Angekok was employed to bring them back again.