604 



W. Thalbitzer 



Fig. 329. Women's ear-drops of ivory. 

 (Holm coll.). 1/2. 



tie their hair in one large bunch on the crown of the head, and 

 Boas «peaks of tiie same mode from Southampton Island^). 



At Baffin Island and on 

 the western side of Hudson Bay 

 it is the custom among the 

 women to part the hair into 

 tw о or several bunches, e. g. one 

 larger arranged in a knot pro- 

 truding from the back of the 

 head and two smaller plaited 

 and folded over the ears join- 

 ing the knot behind (Baffin 

 Land)^), or to make two long 

 braids ("mighty pigtails," Lyon) 

 hanging down over the should- 

 ers and breast (Iglulik, Aivilik 

 etc.)^). At Alaska the same 

 mode prevails; the women ar- 

 range their hair in two pendent 

 braids or club-shaped masses 

 behind the ears, which they 

 let hang down over the breast. 

 These braids are often twisted 

 with strips of fur or strings of 

 beads with ivory ornaments 

 attached^). 



The curious hair ornaments 

 of bone mentioned by Boas 

 from Southampton Island are 

 unknown from Greenland^). 



Ear-drops or pendants 

 (orceetän, p. 33) are a common 

 ornament for the women. The 

 old-fashioned shapes from Am- 

 massalik are seen in the illu- 

 strations; those in fig. 329 are 

 called awatarpaak (also used as 

 pendants on a needle-skin, see fig. 42) while the triangular seen in 



Fig. 330. Women's triangular ear-drops 



of bone and tin-plate. Three pairs. 



(Holm coll.). Ч2. 



•j Lyon (1824) p. 318; Boas (1888) p. 559. In Labrador, the tuglit of the vocabulary 

 (Erdmann) seem to indicate that the women wear two hair tufts on their head. 



2) Boas (1888) p. 559. ■') Lyon (1824) p. 318; Parry (1824) p. 493; Boas (1901) PI. 1И. 



•>) Nelson (1899) pp. 57—58; Murdoch (1892) p. 141. 



°) Boas (1901) p. 75, fig. 102; pp. 417—419, fig. 217. Such hair ornaments are used 

 in Alaska (Hoffmann, 1897, PI. 42 but I have found no reference to them by 

 Lyon and Parry. 



