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 CLOTHING. 



DICKYS. 1 



The accompanying illustrations (Plates I and XXVIII) 

 show the winter costume of a woman from northern Labrador, 

 which is quite similar to that of the Baffin Island Eskimo across 

 Hudson strait. The deerskin dicky is known as the a-'xolik; 

 it is double in the winter costume, consisting of the qo'lituk, 

 or outside dicky, with the hair turned out, and the a"tige or 

 inside dicky with the hair turned in. It is made with the 

 conventional long tail behind and short flap in front, which char- 

 acterizes the dress of the Baffin-islanders. It is trimmed on 

 the edge of the flaps with white strips of reindeer, and barred 

 on the arms with the same material in triple strips with a cross 

 bar. The back of the immense hood is trimmed in the same 

 fashion. The hood is not so pointed as that of the central 

 Eskimo. 



The deerskin dicky is also found with a rounded bottom 

 edge trimmed with strips of skin. I was informed that this was 

 worn by the unmarried women. The men wear a plain dicky 

 with a straight bottom, and a smaller hood. The type appears 

 to be the same on the east coast of Labrador and in Ungava 

 (Plate II A). In Baffin island and on the east coast of Hudson 

 bay the front of the men's dicky is slit for about 5 inches. It 

 appears inthe illustration of a sealskin costume from Cape Wols- 

 tenholme (Plate II B). The trousers in this section are also fuller 

 and banded horizontally with alternate light and dark bars of seal- 

 skin (Plate III B). Here the costumes begin to approach the 

 characteristics of those of the Eskimo on the west coast of 

 Hudson bay. We find also on the east coast of Hudson bay 

 the long skin combination legging and boot (Plate III A a), 

 which is not found in Ungava and eastern Labrador. The cut 

 and trimming of the children's dicky for boys, where the pattern 

 of the dicky reaches its simplest form, are practically the same 



1 As explained in the introduction to this paper the word dicky, in common use among 

 the white trappers and settlers of Labrador, is a corruption of the Eskimo word a"tige. The 

 use is parallelled in Baffin island by the corruption of the Eskimo designation of the outer 

 frock, qo'lttuv. In Alaska we find the whites using the Russianized Kamtschatkan word, 

 parka, for the Eskimo a"tige. 



