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and were meant to protect him against the blood revenge by relatives 

 of the man he had killed '). 



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Fig. 348. Men's amulet harness, (Holm coll.). ^/5.. 



Armlets and ankle-bands (p. 33). — These objects also contain 

 or act as amulets. The armlets (teaawta, fig. 349) are worn both by 

 men and women, but not by everybody. 

 The women wear their armlets round the 

 right arm or wrist, the ankle-band round 

 the ankle of the left foot; the men use 

 two armlets, one on the upper part of 



u T7I- o,<n I- 1 i Fig. 349. Armlet. (Holm coll 



each arm. Fig. 349 shows an armlet ^ 



made of a thin strip of seal-skin plainly sewn and ornamented by 



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') Graah (1832) p. 119 mentions these straps, which are worn cross-wise over breast 

 and shoulders, from southern East Greenland; he explains that they are for the 

 purpose of showing if the man decreased or increased in fatness, probably a 

 misunderstanding arising from the fact that this is the e.xplanation given by the 

 natives with regard to their armlets. In Dalager (1752) p. 80 we find the same 

 explanation with regard to the latter objects. 



