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Fig. 106.Man's outer dress.

These frocks without long flaps buy with slits in front, are, according to the older men, in comparatively new fashion which has spread from Ponds Inlet to more southerly areas, undoubtedly influenced from southern Baffin Land. The old frock of the Iglulik Eskimos had no slits front or back, but two flaps of unequal length, as Parry's and Lyon's illustrations also show.

In former days, before fox skins became a trading commodity, frocks were sometimes made of fox skins at Iglulik. especially when caribou hunting was a failure.

The inner frock is of the same cut as the outer frock, but the hair is inside; as a rule there are fringes, but sometimes only in the slits. There are of course, no edgings or insertions of vari-coloured pieces of skin; on the other hand the edges are often strengthened with a strip of sealskin sewn on.

Fig. 108 (Aivilingmiut) is a typical inner frock of the original cut, with flaps of unequal length front and back and with slits in the sides. Length front 72 cm, back 1.10 m; over-all width 1.25 m; edged

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