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Greenland shoes, rounded fore and aft^). It must be borne in mind that 

 the ships compared with boot-soles date from the I7th or 16th century. 

 The preparation of the sole-skin (bearded seal) and the folding 

 and sewing require great care and skill. Glahn states^), that it is 

 considered one of the greatest attainments to make the folds over the 

 toes and round the heel small (short) and at the same time broad 

 and deep. A special implement exists for this purpose, namely, the 



Fig. 308. Woman's frock (outer) with fur side out, front and back. (Holm coll. 



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boot-sole-creaser {tigussaawt, p. 515). — According to Kroeber there 

 is some difference in the sewing of the outer and inner boots ap- 

 plying both to men's as well as women's boots, namely, that "the 

 leg of the inner boot consists of two pieces of skin and consequently 

 has two seams one on each side, whereas the leg of the outer boot 

 consists of one piece joined in one seam along the front of the leg^). 

 Qiwingataaq told me that in her childhood the men often used 

 boots with the hairy side outwards (made of harbour sealskin), 



1) Egede (1741) pp. 116-117. ^) Glahn (1771) p. 189. ■') Kroeber (1899) pp. 292—293. 



