DCHP-1 Online

atigi artigi, artiggi [< Esk.; cf. attike a covering]

• 1 n. an inner shirt of summer skins with the hair turned inward against the body, used mainly by Eskimos.

  • 1576  (1889)  The language of the people of Meta incognita . . . attegay, a coate.
  • 1882  The women's outside coats are always made of the short hairs, the same as are their ar-tee'-gee.
  • 1930  The koletuk, or outer coat, is a most important article. It is practically the same as the artikee, but is slightly larger to go over it and is worn with the hair outside.
  • 1959  The igloo was unheated, but the X-ray machine quickly forced the snow-house's occupants to doff their atigis. . . .

• 2 n. a hooded outer garment of fur or other material.

  See also: dickey  kapta  kuletuk (def. 1)  overparka  parka (def. 1)  jumper ((2))  

  • 1934  She had foresaken her civilized garb for well fitting mukluks and a blue cloth ahtegi. . . .
  • 1958  Wolf or wolverine fur is used to trim the atigi hoods--wolverine preferably, for ice caused by condensation of the breath can be easily combed from the fine fur.
  • 1963  His weatherbeaten face was the colour of old sealskin, but his tagged artiggi couldn't disguise his blue eyes and Scandinavian origin.