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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
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Slipper and boot-shaped stocking made of eider duck skins with feathers.
1991
BSM S97.128
Ungava Inuit
Eider Skin
I use one duck skin for each adult's outer slipper. Smaller birds are used for smaller feet.
Silatik Meeko, Sanikiluaq, 1989
Inuit on the Belcher Islands have often depended upon bird skins rather than caribou skins for clothing and over-slippers since ice storms in the 1870s eradicated the caribou population. Eider duck skins have been used to make clothing and footwear that is very warm, light-weight and water repellent. Eider duck overshoes are favoured by men and women both in camp and when hunting as an insulating layer.
