DCHP-2
kapta kapetah [< Esk.; cf. Coronation Gulf kapitaq] Arctic DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a hooded outer garment of fur or other material. See picture at atigi (def. 2).
See also: atigi (def. 2)
- 1855 (1892) Underneath the kapetah is a similar garment, but destitute of the hood, which is put on as we do an inner shirt.
- 1934 The preparation was now in its final stages. Tents and tools were ready. Tanned hides and sleeping bags and kaptas were in order.
- 1935 Always the women were scraping new skins and fashioning boots and kaptas.
- 1855 (1892) Underneath the kapetah is a similar garment, but destitute of the hood, which is put on as we do an inner shirt.