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imagine them used as a kind of warming bag, into which the feet can be withdrawn when they are cold when sitting on the sledge or platform; but in the first place the women seldom sit long at a time on the sledge, and in the second place, I have never seen or heard of them being put to such a use; on the platform they usually sit without boots at all, with the bare feet crossed under them.
In northern Baffin Land another woman's dress has made its appearance during the past few years (fig. 138). It consists of an outer frock (qulitsaq), inner frock (atêga), short trousers (qâgdlit), leggings (qugtoraun), stockings (alersit), boots (kangmit) and mittens (pualuk).
Fig. 139 (Ponds Inlet) is an outer frock of this type, of caribou skin; it is cut square at the bottom, without slits, but rather wide; the hood is large and wide, rounded, not so long and narrow as the old style; the shoulders are not wide as on the latter. At the bottom it is edged with a white edging; across the fore-arm a white and a dark band, and the same round the hood opening; fringes on the lower edge. Length of front 70, of back 118, of which the hood measures 36 cm; over-all width 1.00 m; 45 cm from the lower edge the width of the frock is 45 cm; but from there it widens to 75 cm at the bottom; the width of the hood is 40 cm; there is thus a "waist" in the frock. On the lower edge of the hood and also towards the top on one side are sewn two red bands for tying up the hood opening in very cold weather. The cut is shown on fig. 140.
Another frock from Ponds Inlet, of the same cut, is richly decorated with patterns of alternating white and light-coloured pieces of