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Image missingFig. 127.Woman's outer dress. there is a narrow black stripe near the edge. On the upper arms, shoulders and back under the pouch there are long-haired skin fringes. On the breast, just under the hood opening, are two loops of hairy skin for the carrying cord. Length front, from hood opening to bottom edge, 70 cm; back, from point of hood to bottom edge 1.64 m, of which the hood measures 58 cm; over-all width 1.16 m. Inside the hood opening it is lined with a strip of hairy caribou skin, 5 cm wide. Fig. 128 shows the cut. Shoulders and upper arms are alternately light and dark.[1]

A similar frock from the Iglulingmiut has the same white edging with black inlay, the same stripes on the upper arm and the same light insertion in the back pouch; there are no fringes on sleeves or shoulders, but two tassels of very short-haired fringe on the back; length front 0.63, back 1.47 (the hood 0.47) over-all width 1.15 m. The cut is principally the same as the foregoing, but the back of the

  1. ↑ See also Boas' illustrations of Aivilik women's frocks, 1901, fig. 151–52.
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