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The kayak dress was of hairy sealskin and the frock reached to the hips; in addition they used long mittens of sealskin, and under them seal and young bear skin with the hair inwards.

The women's frocks, of caribou or seal skin (Saorre has only seen sealskin) had at the back a short tail, about 20 cm long and half as wide, whereas at the front they were cut straight and did not reach much below the fork; the hood was short but wide, like those of the Baffinlanders; in the back of the frock was a pouched extension for carrying the child, which was held up by a cord round the waist and not, as with the Aiviliks, over the breast. The women's trousers were quite short, of fox, bear or seal skin; on journeys, however, they often used long bearskin trousers like the men. On the other hand the women's boots were very long and of enormous width, of unhaired sealskin, stiffened with long strips of baleen. At the sides the boots ran up into thin tongues in which was fastened a cord round the waist; below the knee was a cord round the leg, and the boot laces (round the foot) were as those of the Aiviliks. With these long boots stockings were used of caribou or young seal skin.

The dress of the children was of bear or seal skin, more rarely caribou and fox skin. While they lay in the back pouch they were at first quite naked, and later were given a jacket and a loose hood of young seal skin; when they were able to walk they were clad in boots and trousers all in one piece and a frock, cut straight at the bottom with an attached hood. Children often used under-frocks of eider duck skins with the feathers next to the body. The neck opening was often protected by a piece of bearskin.

The fringes which the Iglulik Eskimos always have on the lower edge of their caribou-fur frocks were not worn by the Sadlermiut.

The women's hair-dressing resembled the Aiviliks, the hair being plaited into two braids at the sides, but these braids were nearer the face than the Aiviliks wear them; the latters' hair sticks (tuklin) was not used, whereas they wore the hair ornament that has been described earlier (Pl. 76.6) and which is also mentioned by both Lyon and Boas.^[1] The men gathered their hair into a bunch on the forehead, and in this were stuck wound plugs; pierced teeth also hung down from it.

Of ornaments there were sometimes used, besides the hair ornaments mentioned, necklaces and bracelets of salmon vertebrae or small pieces of dog limb bones.

Tattooing, which was confined to the women, has been drawn in the manner shown in fig. 94 by two Aivilik women who have seen it; both these drawings differ from the drawing made by Boas from