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skin; the front has two almost vertical lines running from the neck and diverging all the way; at the top they consist of a band at the Image missingFig. 141.Woman's inner frock; new style. top, of alternate white and dark squares, surrounded on both sides by thin white stripes, at the lower end by two wider stripes. Round. the bottom is a wide border of several white and dark stripes and a similar checked border; these are also along the front of the upper arm, across the upper arm and round the hood opening. Length in front 75 cm, back 1.35 m, over-all width 1.15 m; there is a pronounced "waist" in this frock, which is badly worn.

At Ponds Inlet I saw several of these frocks, which had two slits in the front; one, badly worn, has two vertical stripes in front, running from the lower edge, and presumably must be regarded as survivals of slits.

Fig. 141 (Ponds Inlet) is an inner frock of the same dress, of caribou skin with the hair inside; the cut is as that of the foregoing, but it has not the many edgings and insertions; it is very worn and greasy. It has some bead trimming, consisting of a breast ornament of a short cross band, from the ends of which run two inserted arches; there is also an edging round the hood opening. The breast trimming consists of a number of skin strips and red and black strips of cloth on which are sewn rows of blue, black, pale red and yellow beads, and serrated rows of blue, red and white beads;