Parka from the Great Sledge Expedition. Tertaq's mother attached 80 amulets to the parka of her 6 to 7-year-old son. They are made of animal skin bones, teeth, human, and animal hair, claws, beaks, stones, wood, and fish skin. They were to give him strength and protect him from evil spirits. Tertaq had more amulets than anyone else in the Netsilik Inuit community of Canada he came from. The explorer Knud Rasmussen brought back the parka to Denmark after visiting the people of the Arctic by sled on the 5th Thule Expedition in 1923.
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