The jacket is of caribou hide and the pants of sealskin, both with the hair side out. Mitts and boots are of depilated sealskin. Prime caribou hides, taken in the late summer, were once the usual material for winter clothing in Labrador. During the nineteenth century, however, most Inuit abandoned the late summer caribou hunt and turned to European materials or sealskin for all their winter clothing requirements. Only in northern Labrador, where this Killinek man was photographed, did the late summer hunt continue to provide suitable caribou hides for clothing into the twentieth century.
