CEREMONIAL ARMLETS AND WRISTLETS 



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the hair clipped from it, and used with the hair side outward; the 

 band measures 9 by 3J inches. On the outside the border is occupied 

 by three successive narrow bands of skin, the outer one of reindeer, 

 the hair being clipped to about half an inch in length. This is suc 

 ceeded by a narrow baud of skin from the neck of a duck, the feathers 

 forming a narrow border, which is succeeded by a narrow band of skin 

 from the hair seal with the short hairs remaining. Inside of these 

 bordering strips of fur is a surface of tanned skin colored reddish 

 brown. This is surrounded by a narrow strip of white, parchment like 

 sealskin, having set in pairs at regular intervals along the two sides 

 tufts of hair 3.J inches long, dyed reddish brown. The rest of the sur 

 face is covered by narrow, alternating strips of white tanned parch 

 ment of sealskin divided by equal spaces of the red skin of the back 

 ground. Each of the white strips is held in place by heavy stitching 



FIG. 148 Wristlet from Ikogmut (full size). 



of sinew thread sewed over and binding in two or three long, white, 

 reindeer hairs, which are laid along the strips, producing an alternat 

 ing black and white seam. Along each red strip are four parallel rows 

 of stitches of the same kind, giving the surface of the armlet a longi 

 tudinally striped and dotted appearance. This armlet is held in place 

 by leather thongs with the hair left on. A pair of these, fastened at 

 one end of the armlet, is made of alternating pieces of mink, reindeer, 

 and a smooth, dark, tanned skin. They are sewed with sinew and rein 

 deer hair, as described, in seams on the surface of the armlet. To the 

 tips of these thongs are attached several thin strips of sealskin with 

 the hair left on, serving as a sort of tassel. Armlets of this kind have 

 various styles of ornamentation, some of them being fringed with strips 

 of skin still bearing the hair, with their main surfaces of white, parch 

 ment-like sealskin, sometimes having little strings of beads as pendants 



