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The winter dress of the man is wholly of caribou skin and consists of the following garments: the outer frock (qulitsaq). inner frock (atêga), outer trousers (silapâq), under trousers (ilupâq), outer stockings (kamikpâq), under stockings (aLersit), boots (tugtor qutit) and mittens (pualuk). Eight caribou skins go to a whole dress: two each for the outer and inner frock, two for trousers and two for stockings, boots and mittens. Fig. 106 shows a complete man's dress.

The outer frock is made of two caribou skins, and has the hair on the outside. Fig. 103 (Aivilingmiut) is an outer frock for the coldest winter period, made of rather longhaired caribou skin. Length of front from hood-opening to lower edge, 72 cm, width from sleeve edge to sleeve edge 1.45 m; it has slits in the sides and the back flap is a little longer than the fore flap. The front consists of a uniformly greyish-brown piece of skin, edged with a white strip 9 cm wide. The back is of similar colour and edging and also has across the back three white pieces of skin, a small one in the middle and two larger ones at the sides. The hood-opening is edged with a thin, white strip of skin; the sleeves have three white cross-bands. At the lower edge of the frock are fringes, about 15 cm long, of short-haired caribou skin. The cut will be seen on fig. 104: this shows that the frock must be regarded as a very modified sort of poncho, to which Hatt^[1] has already drawn attention.

Fig. 105 shows the cut of a rather similar frock from the Iglulingmiut, Itibdjeriang; the length at the front is 56 cm, over-all width 1.30 m; it has white edgings and two cross-bands on the sleeves, but no white pieces on the back. The cut on this differs from the former, especially in that the hood and back are all in one piece.

Fig. 106 shows a spring frock from the Iglulingmiut, Itibdjeriang. It is of rather short-haired caribou skin. The front is of one fairly dark piece of skin, edged with black and white strips; the back,