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teeth, sometimes many hundreds in number, round the lower edge 

 of their frock ^). In Alaska the women have necklaces made of strings 

 of beads ^). 



Women's head-kerchiefs (qaaruån, p. 33) made of skin orna- 

 mented with embroidery and meant to tie round the neck were used 



at Ammassalik before the 

 arrival of the Europeans 

 and were then replaced 

 by coloured cottons. Fig. 

 327 a is made of light 

 seal-skin with two white 

 edge-folds embroidered all 

 over with darkly coloured 

 strings of skin in different 

 patterns, b is made of 

 black seal-skin eked out 

 at the back by two flaps 

 of shark-skin; like a it had 

 two white edge-folds and 

 is otherwise ornamented 

 by square strips of skin 

 in a regular arrangement, 

 A third head-dress (not 

 illustrated here) is made 

 of the hairy side of a seal- 

 skin scraped thin and 

 smooth and pliable as 

 wollen cloth. These head- 

 dresses are undoubtedly 

 peculiar to this part of 

 Greenland and unknown 

 outside this place. I should 

 certainly have referred 

 them to the earliest con- 

 nection with the Euro- 

 peans had I not found an 



illustration in Parry of a 

 Fig. 327. Women's kerchiefs of skin. (Holm coll.). Ч,. ^air-band of skin from the 



central regions (Iglulik) very beautifully ornamented and used, un- 

 known on what occasions, by men and perhaps also by women •^). 



1) Parry (1824) p. 497; Lyon (1824) p. 120. At the Skaergaard Peninsula, Amdrup 

 found 53 perforated teeth undoubtedly belonging to a belt or necklace. Cf. what 

 I have written about this question in my paper (1У09| pp. 417 — 419. 



2) Murdoch (1892) p. 148. ^) Parry (1824) p. 498 and fig. 7. 



