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Boots:
An Inuit Women's Art - Perfect
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Wedding Traditions from Around the World - Tradition
and Innovation:
Northern Athapaskan Footwear - Chronicles of Riches
- Paths Across The Plains
- Appeasing the Spirits
- Footsteps on the Sacred Earth
- Paduka
- Japanese Footgear
- Whats their line?
- Heights of Fashion
- New! Resources recommended by Curriculum Services Canada
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In this area, we make some kamiks with flat soles, like these haired ring seal skin kamiks.
Elisapee Audlaluk, Inukjuak, 1980
BSM S82.256
Agatha and Jamie Komaksuitiksak, 1990
Photography by Rick Riewe
Ungava Inuit
Kamiks of the Ungava Inuit
Skin boots remain an important part of Ungava Inuit material culture, although skin boot production is becoming less common as more people buy southern-style mass-produced footwear. Most seamstresses follow traditionally established footwear patterns, but individual creativity, the availability of skins and communication with neighbouring groups also influence boot styles. Haired and shaved seal skin boots are most common, but caribou body and leg skin boots are used in cold weather. In the past, the coastal and island populations traded extensively - islanders exchanged bearded sealskin soles and ivory tools for caribou skins and caribou skin clothing from the mainlanders.
