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age of three to a hundred joins in.
As soon as a stranger comes into a camp, everyone wants
to shake hands and they all crowd around to that purpose, talking a
blue streak while everyone greets everyone else.
The way these women can work is astonishing to one used
to the ways of the white women. Several of our par ty had parkas
(koo-lik-tals) made of deerskin. A woman takes the skins and with
an instrument that looks like a shoehorn with a sharp edge, scrapes
off all the hard dry tissue and makes it soft and pliable. Then
with a linife cuts out the pieces. Then sews them together with car-
ibou sinew with a fast stroke that makes a perfectly even stitch.
They can cut the skins perfectly evenly just by eye and all they need
in the way of size measurements is one look at the person it is to
fit. A typical incident of what the women do for the men we saw first
hand. A man came into his tent and took off his sealskin boots
(kamiks), whereupon two women picked them up, turned them inside out,
and started chewing the feet to keep them soft. When putting soles
on the kamiks, they chew up the piece to soften it and then sew it so
the thread neither goes through the sole, to be worn out on the
rocks, nor through the boot, to make it leak.
Trading with these people seems almost like robbery,but
I guess what they get means as much to them as the value of what
they give- they are very practical. 1 got a fine harpoon with a
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