Only fur clothing was warm enough in such a cold place. The Inuit preferred the fur of the caribou, though they sometimes used fur of other animals such as seals and polar bear.
Clothing was coat, trousers, stockings, shoes or boots. In very cold weather two of each garment was worn.
Boots are called kamiks. They are made from sealskin because it lasts long, is warm, and isn't hurt when it gets wet.
Inuit Food
The Inuit people hunt for their food. They eat fish, sea animals and a few land animals. They hunt seals, especially, the ring seal. Inuit know a great deal about how seals live. They also know about ice that covers the sea in the winter. They know where to go on that ice to find the seals. The Inuit people hunt seals during winter through the frozen ocean ice.
In the spring and summer, when the ice melts, seals are hunted from boats called kayaks. The kayak holds only one hunter. The hunter sits in it, dressed in tight-fitting waterproof clothes made from seal or walrus. The hunter can get very close to seals without being heard.
Houses
The word igloo actually means any type of house, not just a snow house. The snow-block house that we usually think of when we hear igloo was not used by all Inuits. There were no snow-block houses in Alaska. The Alaskan Inuit lived in cabins made from driftwood and covered with soil.
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