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are worn on three or four fingers, and often on the little finger too, on both hands; a woman at Ponds Inlet had eight rings on eight different fingers, all except the thumbs.

Parry^[1] says that the women at Iglulik made bracelets and finger rings of the beads that were given to them; they also had a row of pierced animal teeth along the lower edge of the frock or as a belt round the waist; these were particularly the teeth of bears and wolves, but also of musk-oxen, whilst wolverine bones and fox noses were sometimes used.

I only saw very few cases of men wearing a necklace (ujamik), consisting of one, two or three rows of beads.

The men wear their hair long. To prevent it falling over their eyes they employ a variety of devices: the side hair is plaited into two braids which are tied together at the back of the head; these side-braids are often very thin. The front hair may be cut off, a method which is seldom practised among the Aiviliks, however (but is common among the Netsiliks). A method which is said to have been greatly in use formerly at Iglulik and Ponds Inlet is that of plaiting the front hair into a small braid, which was rolled into a small bun on the forehead; I saw a man (Iglulingmio) on Southampton Island with his hair done this way, and two boys at Iglulik.

A very common method is to confine the hair by means of a hair band (quperikut), nowadays nearly always a strip of cloth trimmed with beads. One of these, from the Aivilingmiut, is of black cloth. about 1.1 cm wide, on which is sewn a row of oxygons of white beads. in all 67 triangles, all turning the point to the same side. Another, from Ingnertoq, is of black cloth, 1½ cm wide, decorated with six close rows of white beads; in the two middle rows, six to eight blue beads being set in at certain intervals, which make regular blue patches on a white background. A third hair-band from the Aivilingmiut. 1 cm wide, is of violet cotton cloth, decorated with four rows of beads, the two outside being white and the inner two with alternating white and red beads. A fourth, 0.8 cm wide, consists of five rows of beads sewn together without any underlay; the ground colour is bluish white and in it there are alternately small red crosses and blue crosses, the latter alternating with and without a yellow centre bead. Parry describes and illustrates on p. 548.7 a haird band consisting of alternating black and yellow strips of skin, at the top being plaited hair, at the bottom more than a hundred teeth, prin-