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atigi
[< Esk.; cf. attike a covering]
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Spelling variants:artigi, artiggi
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1n.
an inner shirt of summer skins with the hair turned inward against the body, used mainly by Eskimos.
Quotations
1576
The language of the people of Meta incognita . . . attegay, a coate.
1882
The women's outside coats are always made of the short hairs, the same as are their ar-tee'-gee.
1930
The koletuk, or outer coat, is a most important article. It is practically the same as the artikee, but is slightly larger to go over it and is worn with the hair outside.
1959
The igloo was unheated, but the X-ray machine quickly forced the snow-house's occupants to doff their atigis. . . .
2n.
a hooded outer garment of fur or other material.
Quotations
1934
She had foresaken her civilized garb for well fitting mukluks and a blue cloth ahtegi. . . .
1958
Wolf or wolverine fur is used to trim the atigi hoods--wolverine preferably, for ice caused by condensation of the breath can be easily combed from the fine fur.
1963
His weatherbeaten face was the colour of old sealskin, but his tagged artiggi couldn't disguise his blue eyes and Scandinavian origin.
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