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summer. On very sunny and warm days many persons only 

 wear the inner pelt. The pelt is provided with a hood, to be 

 pulled over the head, so that only the face is bare surrounded 

 by a skin border. The women, who are carrying a child in 

 the "amaut", have however a loose , helmet-shaped skin hat, 

 which is fastened under the chin by a band ; they use further 



Fig. 31. 



Kagssâluk with her two children, the girl Natu with the hood of the fosskin 



pelt over her head sitting in the amaut of sealskin pelt and the boy Inuterk, 



who like Natu is clad in a foxskin pelt. 



a narrow, skin strap which is fastened at the one end in the 

 middle line of the pelt between the breasts; from here it is 

 carried round the back under the bag or pouch, to prevent the 

 child from sinking down, and is then brought right round the 

 other side and buttoned, the free end having a short cross- 

 piece of bone which is twisted under the fixed end on the 

 breast. 



