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and gathered at the back without any bun; most often the cause of this is thin hair, or merely carelessness.

Children usually wear their hair long, loosely; girls, however, soon adopt the two side braids.

Most women are still tatooed (kakineq); but it is a custom that is going more and more out of use and only few of the youngest women are tatooed; at Ponds Image missingFig. 156.New style hair dressing. Inlet saw sixteen untatooed grown women, including nearly all those from southern Baffin Land.

The complete face tatooing looks like the illustration on fig. 157. The forehead lines are called qaujaq, the cheek lines tunit, those at the mouth eqerutit and the chin lines tablerutit. But by no means all women have the complete design, some the eqerutit, sometimes the tablerutit as well; on some women the centre of these is not trifurcated but bifurcated; tatooing the chin stripes is said to be especially painful and for that reason they are often omitted. On two old women at Ponds Inlet I saw rows of dots between the chin lines.

Transversal lines are often tatooed on the hands, in rows of (symbol characters) (symbol characters), (symbol characters), or (symbol characters); similar patterns are often seen over the whole fore-arm, upper arm and shoulders;^[1] fig. 158 shows various tatooing patterns: a is the left hand of a woman at Repulse Bay; on the right hand she had only a few rows across the palm near the thumb. b is the hands of a woman from Iglulik; c is shoulder tatooing from Repulse Bay, d–e from Iglulik, f from Southampton Island; the latter is continued right down over the upper arms; the same woman was tatooed on the outer thighs with rows of transversal lines.

On Parry's picture, p. 160, is the face tatooing of a woman; it