An atigi is not decorated — it is assembled. Panels of caribou and reindeer hide are seamed into a garment that reads as a layout: a wide field, a narrow pieced strip, a field again. White belly fur is set deliberately over the chest and heart. The hood ruff is engineered in three layers, wolverine inward, then wolf belly, then wolf back.

The qupak band at hem, cuff and yoke is the signature. Its small hard-edged repeats — steps, blocks, alternating tabs mirrored about a centre seam — name the seamstress and her region to anyone who can read them. This system inherits that logic: banded structure, visible seams, and one thread of trade-wool red pierced through the trim.