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amaut
amowt
[< Esk.]
n.
See 1963 quote. See picture at atigi.
See also:
atigi
1897
 
The women's jacket has a fur-lined "amowt," or large hood, for carrying a child. . . .
1952
 
There was Ootek, and Howmik his wife, and a child in her womb and another who rode in her amaut.
1963
 
Until he [an Eskimo boy] was three he lived mostly in the
amaut
, a pouch built into the back of his mother's parka.