Hieromonk Gideon:
"Following the [elder] men, everyone sings, while the men, dressed in their festive little hats and embroidered hoods [kolpaki/kolbaki] made especially for such occasions, dance singly, with rattles in their hands, now jumping, now crouching down, or swaying their bodies from side to side, swinging the rattles in time. In these movements they represent their various hunting activities, for example, how a whaler spears a whale and then evades the animal, how a sea otter is being driven and so on."

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