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((refimprove|date = January 2023))
((Short description|Inuit form of showing affection and or greeting))
[[Image:eskimokiss.jpg|thumb|A couple doing a nose rub]]
An '''Eskimo kiss''', '''nose kiss''', or '''nose rub''' is a gesture of affection where one rubs the tip of one's nose against another person's face. In [[Inuit]] culture, the gesture is known as a '''''kunik''''', and consists of pressing or rubbing the tip of one's nose against another's cheek.<ref name="sct-kunik"/> In non-Inuit English-speaking culture, two people Eskimo kiss by rubbing the tips of their noses together. Nose-to-cheek kisses are found in other cultures as well.

==History==
((Unreferenced section|date=July 2023))
When early Western explorers of the [[Arctic]] first witnessed Inuit nose rubbing as a greeting behavior, they dubbed it ''[[Eskimo]] kissing'', despite the practice's prevalence in nearby non-[[Inuit]] cultures. This was used as an intimate greeting by the Inuit who, when they meet outside, often have little except their nose and eyes exposed.((Citation needed|date=January 2024))

==In Inuit culture==
[[Image:Genuine kunik.jpg|thumb|An Iñupiat woman shares a ''kunik'' with a small child at a [[Nalukataq]] in [[Utqiaġvik, Alaska]], 2007]]
Among the Inuit, ''kunik'' is a form of expressing affection,<ref name="sct-kunik">((cite web |url=https://www.southcoasttoday.com/story/lifestyle/2005/02/16/an-eskimo-kiss-is-kunik/986185007/ |title=An 'Eskimo kiss' is a kunik, and maybe not what you think |access-date=2008-01-09 |date=2005-02-16 |work=South Coast Today |first=Jeff |last=Elder))</ref> usually between family members and loved ones or to young children,<ref>((Cite news |last=Doucleff |first=Michaeleen |last2=Greenhalgh |first2=Jane |date=2019-03-13 |title=How Inuit Parents Teach Kids To Control Their Anger |language=en |work=NPR |url=https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/03/13/685533353/a-playful-way-to-teach-kids-to-control-their-anger |access-date=2022-12-26))</ref> that involves pressing the nose and upper lip against the skin (commonly of the cheeks or forehead) and breathing in, causing the loved one's skin or hair to be suctioned against the nose and upper lip.<ref name="esquire-kunik">((cite web |url=http://www.esquire.com/style/answer-fella/answerfella0507 |title=Eskimo Kisses, Arm Hair, Moon Flags & Spike Lee vs. Stan Lee vs. Bruce Lee |work =Esquire Magazine |access-date=2008-01-09 |date=2007-05-09))</ref> A common misconception is that the practice arose so that Inuit could kiss without their mouths freezing together. Rather, it is a non-erotic but intimate greeting used by people who, when they meet outside, often have little except their nose and eyes exposed.((Citation needed|date=January 2024))

The greeting was described in reports of [[Kerlungner]] and Wearner, part of a group of [[Alaska Natives|Alaskan Native]] people touring the United States with entrepreneur Miner W. Bruce in the 1890s: "Mr. Bruce yesterday instructed Kerlungner and Wearner that in this country they should not rub noses, and to close the lesson the two young women kissed each other in the new style for a beginning, both seeming to fear that they looked silly as they did it."<ref>((Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/34399627/kerlungner_1895/|title=All Eager to See the Eskimo|date=September 21, 1895|work=The Seattle Post-Intelligencer|access-date=July 30, 2019|page=7))</ref>

==In other cultures==
[[File:Following the Equator (Mark Twain) (page 328 crop).jpg|thumb|Image of two people "nose rubbing" in [[Mark Twain]]'s [[Following the Equator|"Following the Equator"]] 1897 travelogue]]
Other peoples use similar greeting practices, notably the [[Māori people|Māori]] of New Zealand and [[Native Hawaiians|Hawaiians]], who practice the [[hongi]] and honi greetings, respectively. Mongolian nomads of the [[Gobi Desert]] have a similar practice, as do certain [[Southeast Asia]]n cultures, such as [[Bengalis]], [[Khmer people]], [[Lao people]], [[Thai people]], [[Vietnamese people]], [[East Timor|Timor]], [[Savu people]], [[Sumba people]]<ref>((cite web |url=http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2006/02/05/sumba-keeping-vow-blessings-curse-and-sweet-potatoes.html |title=Sumba: Keeping a vow -- blessings, curse and sweet potatoes |date=2006-02-05|access-date=2013-09-13 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714230509/http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2006/02/05/sumba-keeping-vow-blessings-curse-and-sweet-potatoes.html |archive-date=2014-07-14 )), ''The Jakarta Post''</ref> and [[Iban people]]. Nose kissing is also employed as a traditional greeting by [[Tribes of Arabia|Arab tribesmen]] when greeting members of the same tribe.((Citation needed|date=January 2023)) It is also popular in Arabian tribes in southern part of Iran, such as the [[Bushehr Province]].

==See also==
((Portal|Society))
* [[Cheek kissing]]

==References==
((Reflist))

((Gestures))

[[Category:Kissing]]
[[Category:Inuit culture]]
[[Category:Gestures]]

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