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Image missingFig. 142.Woman's trousers; new style. from these hang fringes consisting of strings trimmed with varicoloured beads — light blue, dark blue, yellow, red and green — and ending in caribou foreteeth and with small cartridge cases. The hood-edging consists of four serrated rows of white, pink, yellow and light blue beads.

The bead trimming on frocks of this form is always so arranged; the breast-trimming is called sakiakut.

A pair of trousers for the same dress is shown on fig. 142; they are of caribou skin with the hair outside, except a thin strip at the top; across the top of the thigh is a wide, white stripe; length 47 cm; they fit tightly and barely reach the knee.

A legging, for protecting the knee and the lower part of the thigh is shown on fig. 143. It is 29 cm long and consists of a piece of caribou skin with the hair outside, a dark edge at the top. two white and one dark stripe, and fringes, at the bottom. By means of a piece of sealskin strap, which is split and fastened in two places to the outside at the top, these leggings are held up by he waist-cord.

The corresponding boots are shown on fig. 144; they are made with caribou leg-skin legs, feet of seal skin (in winter caribou skin). The uppers are of yellow skin, the sole of black sole skin; there are the usual eyes for the lace. The length of the leg is 31, the foot Image missingFig. 143.Woman's legging. Image missingFig. 144.Woman's boot; new style. 24 cm. The soles are strengthened with two pieces of seal skin sewn on; they are fastened round the leg by a sealskin lace round the top.

The first time we saw this dress was at Pingerqalik, where a woman, Arnânuk (fig. 138) was wearing it; at Ponds Inlet, however, it was fairly common and was worn by 12 of