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mittens is done in silk, and on duffle in coloured yarns, the 

 designs being nearly always floral with brilliant colours, and 

 similar to modern work among the Montagnais and other Indian 

 tribes of the Labrador interior. The leather-appliqu4 work, 

 so highly developed among the Greenland Eskimo, finds a faint 



Figure 30. 



Tattooing on leg and forearm of woman, from southern 

 Baffin island. 



reflection here in a few specimens. Plate XXIX A a shows the 

 wavy line, used to decorate the flap of a tobacco pouch. Another 

 specimen shows the diamond-shaped design, which is also seen 

 in tattooing (see Figure 30, tattooing on forearm, Baffin island) 

 and suggests a possible connexion between the two. Some 

 women's duffle frocks from Cape Chidley had the simple cross 

 design in leather as a decoration of the border. This design is 

 said to indicate "flying birds," among East Greenlanders. 



WORK IN BASKETRY. 



Eskimo basketry is of the sewn coiled type, and is quite 

 simple in construction. It consists of a "bunch of grass sewed 

 in a continuous coil by a whip stitch over the bunch and under 



