Clothing from East Greenland IV. Materials and their processing

Before contact with Europeans, the traditional style of clothing among polar peoples was closely linked with local natural conditions, and with the economic structure of the society. The circumstances of everyday life determined, for example, the choice of material from which the clothing was made.
 

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