£2,000 FOR A DRESS
Indian women in Greenland dress more expensively than the richest women in. London or Paris.
frequently the ward-robe of a semLsaVage girl on the east coast consists of furs which would se]l in civilisation for £2,000. Gmndeman, the explorer, tells of one Greenland belle who wore a dress of sealskin, with a hood of that rarest of furs the silver fox.
There was an elaborate fringe of wolverine tails, while the garment was lined with the iur of young sea otter. The average value of the dresses worn by Indian women on the Columbia and Eraser Rivers is said to be <£lso Graul saw a Dyak girl with a golden corset. It consisted of 40 solid gold rings, the smallest about the waist, the others increasing gradually in size over bnst and hips. The corset represented the value of the girl’s dowry. Sadong girls frequently ornament their dresses with £35 to £SO of gold and silver.
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New Zealand Mail, 5 February 1902, Page 51
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