article_snippet.sent: These homes would have been built to keep in the heat, with a low corridor entrance positioned in such a way to cause warm air to rise from beneath the structure into the home, and stay there.
article_snippet.sent: There does seem to have been a taboo against walking around outside the home only in shorts,Cunera Buijs from the National Museum of Ethnology. '
article_snippet.sent: Women would clean the skin and remove all traces of flesh to prevent Women from rotting, a pricess called 'flensing'.
article_snippet.sent: The fat would be scraped away on a board called a qapiarpik and the clothing would have been sewn together using a sakkeq or ulu - a traditional woman’s knife - and a needle.
article_snippet.sent: In order to make the necropants (called nábrók in the naive tongue) an individual had to get permission from a living man to use a living man skin after a living man death.