Field Notebook: Greenland 1987a
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modified by Danish influence. The women are very decorative a combination of Eskimo and Danish costumes. They wear long generally green camisole and seal skin pants. Above this the waist is a European stuff. Around the neck there may be a large bit of lace like stuff or one of beads. Their hair is with chine of in a perpendicular style bound in blue ribbon if married, red if single, and red and blue if a widow, green if a harlot. These people are no longer Eskimos. Some are more civilized than native. Several could readily pass for white women if dressed different. One little girl had red hair and a serious expression of great quiet time (some Eskimogun had seen her mother). Mr. & Mrs. Lee have been given the use of a small native house in which they formed when the woman and her children of one of the young governors. This house was built for her when her lord returned to Denmark. The lower north opposite Fredhaven are of grenite up four hundred feet and then up to 2300 feet all is a crumbling basalt. These basalt cliffs are of a burnt amber color with bands of