The Preparation of Skins and Clothing in the Eastern Canadian Arctic

• Published in: Polar Record
• Main Authors: T. H., Manning, E. W.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1944
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Ecology; Geography, Planning and Development; Arctic; Baffin Island; Southampton Island; Repulse Bay; Chesterfield Inlet; Melville Peninsula; Baffin; eskimo*; Polar Record
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247400041711; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247400041711

During the eight years I spent in the Arctic, I have experimented with a variety of clothing, but in neither winter nor summer have I found any more suitable than that worn by the present-day Eskimos in districts where caribou are still plentiful. From 1938 to 1941 we prepared all our own skins, and...