Amauti
The amauti is the woman's parka of the Inuit, cut from caribou skin with a large hood and a deep pouch across the back, the amaut, in which a baby rides warm against its mother's body. The pouch lets the child nurse and sleep without being lifted into the cold, while the hood shields mother and child together from the wind, and the whole garment is sewn with the legendary precision of Inuit women, who cut and stitch by eye so that the seams shed weather. A well-made amauti is a work of both craft and love, the fit of the pouch, the length of the tails, the fur trim at the hood's edge are all j