Drum dancing, Gjoa Haven, Nunavut, Canada, 2019Drummers at a dance near Nome in 1900.
The qilaut (Inuit: "that by means of which the spirits are called up",[1] syllabic: ᕿᓚᐅᑦ[2]) 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.