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The person from whom I had most opportunity to obtain 

 this information was a young, pregnant woman Inadtliak, who 

 was busy preparing for future use an "amaut''^ or a pelt in 

 which to carry the child on her back. She had made a 

 shield-shaped piece of tanned sealskin for her new Little Auk 

 pelt, to be placed outside at the back, so that the pelt came 

 to stand out at the back and form a space for the expected 



Fig. 30. 



Inadtliak and her litte son. She is sitting in the open on some skins and, the sun being 

 warm, has for a moment taken off both her kamikker and bird-skin pelt for mending 



purposes. 



child, which would be lodged between her bare back and the 

 bird-skin. For the time being, she stopped up the space with 

 the hood of the skin-pelt, so that her back should not freeze. 

 Whilst the inner pelt has the feather side innermost, the 

 outer pelt, which is made of the skins of seals, foxes or rein- 

 deer, always has the hairy side outermost. The sealskin pelt 

 is used in summer, whilst the others belong to the winter, 

 though the old Krule went about in a fox-skin pelt during the 



