Kalukhaq [kalluraq, kalluak, kaylukuk, kotlookuk]- Beverley Diamond- , revised by J. Richard Haefer [kalluraq, kalluak, kaylukuk, kotlookuk]Ceremonial box drum associated with the Messenger Feast of the Iñupiaq-speaking people of Alaska. It is a rectangular wooden case (usually made of poplar), 45 to 90 cm tall by 18 to 30 cm long and wide. A fur-padded rail, attached along one side with a strip of black whale baleen, is struck with a thick, short stick while the drum is suspended from the ceiling of the ceremonial house. The drum is played by a seated drummer (usually male) wearing the tuutlik, a loon-skin headdress. A soundhole can be cut in the bottom of the drum and a handhold attached to one side. The drum is decorated with a zigzag pattern on the top edge and with eagle feathers. In the native cosmology that explains the origin of the feast, the drum is said to represent an eagle’s heartbeat. The Tlingit people call the box drum lákt gaaw. Such instruments are often decorated in red and black stylized raven patterns....