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nirmiut cover the inside of the same with seal-skins ; while the 

 Nugumiut and Akudlirmiut leave the walls bare. They cut the 

 pieces of snow much thicker and bury the whole house in loose snow 

 which they stamp down with their feet. 



In summer they live in tents made of seal-skin. The back part 

 is formed by six poles, arranged in a semicircle and lashed together 

 at their converging points. Two poles run from this junction to the 

 entrance, which is also formed of two poles. The Okomiut build 

 the back part of the tents much less steep than the Akudnirmiut. 

 The Aggomiut use a tent with only one pole in the center, and 

 one for the entrance. 



I have been informed tha' three different styles of clothing are 

 used in Baffin Land, two o which I have seen myself. The Sicosu- 

 ilarmiut are said to use jackets with a broad tail and a hood, which 

 latter is not pointed. The Nugumiut and Okomiut are very well 

 clad, having their garments neatly trimmed with skins of different 

 color and adorned with skin straps. Their hoods are long pointed, 

 and the tails of the women's jackets very narrow. The jackets of 

 the men have either no tail whatever, or one that is very short. 

 The women's pants consist of two parts, the leggins being fastened 

 by a string to the short breechlets. 



The Akudnirmiut and Aggomiut use very large hooded jackets 

 with a small point at the top. Their clothing is much inferior to 

 that of the Okomiut. I have seen scarcely any attempt to adorn 

 it in any way. The women wear very large boots which reach up 

 to the hips. In Pond's Bay they are sometimes kept up by whale 

 bone, and they are in the habit of carrying the young children in 

 them. 



There exist only very slight differences in the dialects from Akud- 

 liak to Pond's Bay, and those I found refer only to the vocabulary. 

 However, in the most common phrases, the way of greeting, etc., 

 every tribe has its own style. Nor could I find any differences with 

 reference to their traditions. It is possible that a number of the 

 Oko stories are unknown in Tudnunirn, and vice versa, but I am 

 not sufficiently acquainted with the Tudnunirmiut to positively 

 decide the question. 



There are some differences between the Okomiut and the Akud- 

 nirmuit in the arrangement of feasts, which are repeated every fall, 

 during which some natives make their appearance disguised and 

 masked as representatives of a fabulous tribe. 



