Motif
Age-marked transition into adult dress
age_marked_transition_into_adult_dress
A motif of the Initiation and Transformative Ordeal family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
inuit
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The Central Eskimo THE SLEDGE AND DOGS. / HABITATIONS AND DRESS. / THE HOUSE. / CLOTHING, DRESSING OF THE HAIR, AND TATTOOING.; lines 5908-6004 confidence: high
At about a month old, children are put into a fawn-skin jacket and cap, with legs bare because they are carried in the mother’s hood; in some places they are said to be carried in large boots; the cap is made from the fawn head with upright ears.
Children are described as wearing different garments as infants, older children, boys around eight, and girls around nine or ten, when they assume adult clothing.
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