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referred to very old times, "when only white frost and not snow 

 covered the country." I am surprised that the Ammassalikers refer 

 the use of shoes to such a remote time, for both Egede and Cranz 

 mention them as belonging to the dress of the Greenlanders of 

 the 18th century. On the other hand, it is quite right that the 



western Eskimo wear shoes or 

 slippers and it may really be 

 that the Ammassalikers refer 

 to some ancient remote form 

 of foot gear which had been 

 relinquished and never reached 

 Greenland — either those worn 

 outside the stocking or some- 

 ,^—^^^^—„^^ times between this and the 



* <^^^^^^^«^^«^ « outer boot like the moccasins 



of the Indians \). According to 

 Kleinschmidt some sort of foot- 

 ware called ikernuk (shoes or 

 sandals?) is mentioned in the 



#: ,■ '^ 



Fig. 310. 



Child's (girl's) dress. 



(Holm coll.). i/io. 



a 



Fig. 311. Women's boots, a of white 

 leather, b of black. (Holm coll. Чю. 



old tales ^). Apart from these, shoes made of black leather, laced 

 over the instep, with soles like the old-fashioned boot-soles, are 

 mentioned by Egede and Cranz ^). 



1) Lyon (1824) pp. 313-314; Parry (1824) p. 496; Boas (1901) p. 106, figs. 154—155 



(of. p. 52). 

 ^) Kleinschraidt dictionary p. 80. 

 3) Egede (1741) p. 73; Cranz (1770) p. 183. 



