Dr. Asta Mønsted
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Sometimes he was the same he or she.
Sometimes this person would also be the leader of the pack, so to say.
But other times it could be another hunter leader.
who was just respectful and he had authority, and then he would be the leader.
So sometimes it would be two different roles, the engakop and then the leader.
We also sometimes have figures looking like humans, but actually in the Tula culture, the Inuit culture, we don't see so many carvings and so much ornamentation as we see in the Dorset culture.
So the Dorset culture, we see the pictures of humans and
It's much more, such a rich material to look into.
So why the Inuit culture later on were too lazy to do it, I don't know.
But the Dorsey culture have amazing source material to look into the ornamentations and what they depict and how lifelike they are.
But we also have amazing find from, actually from my hometown,
It's eight mummies, and they are called the Riligitok mummies.
And they are dated back to the mid-1400s.
And what is amazing here is how well-preserved they are.
So we find all their skin clothing, inner clothes and outer clothes,
So you have a handful of women and then two boys.
And they have been put to rest with the skin clothing.
But on some of the women, at least one of the women, she has facial tattoos.