DCHP-2
singing house DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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among Eskimos, a special building where communal singing and dancing take place.
See also: dance house snowhouse (def. 2)
- 1916 Old missionary accounts speak of snow-houses 16 feet high and 70 feet across, which the heathen Eskimo built to celebrate their winter festivals in. These ceremonial houses probably corresponded to the qaggi or singing-house of the Baffin-islanders.
- 1916 Old missionary accounts speak of snow-houses 16 feet high and 70 feet across, which the heathen Eskimo built to celebrate their winter festivals in. These ceremonial houses probably corresponded to the qaggi or singing-house of the Baffin-islanders.