amaut

[< Esk.]

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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amowt

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See 1963 quote. See picture at atigi.

See: atigi

1897

The women's jacket has a fur-lined "amowt," or large hood, for carrying a child. . . .

1952

There was Ootek, and Howmik his wife, and a child in her womb and another who rode in her amaut.

1963

Until he [an Eskimo boy] was three he lived mostly in the amaut, a pouch built into the back of his mother's parka.