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which is an individual fancy (its owner is the son of the aforementioned inventive Aua), is of three rather narrow flaps and it has three Image missingFig. 103.Man's winter outer frock; back view. white inlays with a black cross-stripe. The cut is as on fig. 103 with the differences involved by the three flaps and the triple back inlay; thus the back piece sends three narrow extensions down into the flaps.
This form of frock with slits in the sides, a short front flap and a longer back flap, is that used by the Aivilik Eskimos and also by most of the Iglulik and Ponds Inlet Eskimos. However. some Iglulingmiut — mostly older men — and a number of Tununermiut have a frock which, besides having slits in the sides, also has a slit in the front and is usually cut square at the bottom, so that it exactly resembles the Baffin Land frock.[1] A frock from the Iglulingmiut has slits in the front, but not in the back, where the flap extends further down than in front; length in front 75 cm, back 1.20 m, over-all width 1.40 m; at the bottom and round the hood a broad white edging with thin dark stripes; three insertions in the back as on fig. 103; the cut is as on fig. 104 with the alteration involved by the slit.
- ↑ Boas 1888, fig. 397 and 1901, fig. 68.