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Definition of Angekok
1. an Eskimo sorcerer [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Angekok
Literary usage of Angekok
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Travel and Adventure in the Territory of Alaska: Formerly Russian America by Frederick Whymper (1868)
"... of goods — The " Schaman " and the "angekok." THAT Russian America is likely
to prove a bad bargain to the United States Government, I cannot believe. ..."
2. In Arctic Seas: The Voyage of the "Kite" with the Peary Expedition, Together by Robert Neff Keely, Gwilym George Davis (1893)
"THE angekok.— THE FUGITIVE WIFE AND DAUGHTER. — A FOSSIL GLACIER. recollection of
the walrus hunting in Smith -L Sound was so pleasant, that the day after ..."
3. The Moravians in Labrador (1835)
"... and Haven entertained by an angekok—his incantations—their parting addresses
to each other—the missionaries return to London. WHEN the original Hudson's ..."
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