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form and only to keep on the short breeches which consist of very 

 little but a widened belt round the thighs and loins ^). 



Out in the open air the children may be seen playing with 

 each other with no clothes on. The grown-up people on the other 

 hand are not seen naked outside the house and a woman would 

 consider it very indecent to appear in her home-dress outside the 



Fig. 292. Women's outer breeches. (Holm coll.). ^/o. 



door-opening; I have the impression that they are forbidden to do 

 so on religious grounds. When I wished to photograph Maneekut- 

 taq's wife and asked her to take off her frock outside the tent, she 

 called her husband, who was angakoq apprentice but not full-fledged, 



1) Murdoch (1892) p. 112; Steensby (1910) p. 334. In the snow-huts of the Central 

 Eskimo this custom does not prevail, however, owing to the low temperature. 

 Cf. Lyon (1824) p. 111. 



