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kuletuk koletuk, koolitak, kulatuk, kulutuk, etc. [East Esk. ; cf. koliktar (over)coat]

• 1 n. East. Arctic a hooded outer garment of fur or other material. See picture at atigi (def. 2).

  See also: atigi (def. 2 and picture)  kooleta(h)  

  • 1897  . . . after a moment's pause he shouted out 'ko-le-tuk,' meaning a woman's dress of deer skin. He exhibited two of these, made of beautifully dressed skins, with shoulder hoods for papoose, and the inevitable long tails, the only distinguishing mark between the dress of the men and that of the women.
  • 1904  The ordinary winter dress of the Husky is an inner deerskin coat (u-u-pak), worn hair inside, and a thicker deerskin coat (kūl-i-tak) over this, with the hair outside.
  • 1933  An Eskimo woman in winter "kuletuk", showing the character of the back with the long tail embellishments.
  • 1941  A pull-over skin shirt with hair on and a hood trimmed with fur is generally called an artiggi, artikie, dickie, koolitak or what you will; but to avoid confusion it will be referred to in this article as a parka.
  • 1965  Both kulatuks were made by Eskimo women patients in the Moose Factory Indian-Eskimo hospital.

• 2 n. a parka of commercial make patterned on the Eskimo garment and styled primarily for women.

  • 1959  This year a group of manufacturers decided that since the Eskimo has always been far ahead of the rest of us when it comes to keeping warm, they would use his basic design and his name for parka (kul-e-tuk) for their cold-weather garments.
  • 1960  This time of year (February) Hope wears a flame-red kulutuk--Eskimo style parka trimmed with wolverine fur--and moccasins.
  • 1963  [Caption] "Walking-out" ensemble combines stretch slacks with a Kul-e-tuk (parka) made by Lydia, Deep-pile Orlon is used, and hood is trimmed with fox.