This man was a shirt wearer and a medicine man. The scalp locks upon his shirt testify to his prowess as a warrior; the arrangement of his hair serves as a symbol of his sacred office as a tribal leader and medicine man. (Harbaugh, P., 1982).
These are authentic Eskimo stories selected from Memoir 91, Anthropological Series 14 of the Geological Survey of Canada, "The Labrador Eskimo" by E.W. Hawkes