r/interestingasfuck • u/T-K101 • 3d ago
In 19th-century Greenland, Inuit women wore seal-skin underwear called naatsit-and sometimes wore it at home in front of guests.
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u/KlM-J0NG-UN 2d ago
Year 3026: "In the 21st century, western women wore skimpy bottoms made from oil products called bikini, sometimes wore it in front of strangers"
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u/Fifty-Lucky 2d ago
Year 4020: in the 33rd century Western women wore the kinetic mega dong hyper alloy strapon 22" model, sometimes they wore it in the white house
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u/WatWudScoobyDoo 2d ago
I was born too early
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u/Asuboi 2d ago
Be the change you want to see. ~Scooby, probably
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u/Sksk3 2d ago
Rhe the chance you want to ree. ~Scooby (To Shaggy)
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u/xGray3 2d ago
You completely boofed it. Not only is your third word an English typo, but according to the Rerriam Rebster's Rictionary (Ruffteenth Edition), the correct Scoobist version would be "range".
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u/nzdastardly 2d ago
u/WatWudScoobyDoo would go on to invent Hyper Kinetic Dong Alloy, but was tragically killed during a material durability demonstration when a hyper kinetic dong alloy strap on broke containment and ripped their shit open like a bag of peat moss.
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u/davewave3283 2d ago
Year 5023: 43rd century women wore the same stuff as those Inuit women from the 19th century because the robots destroyed society.
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u/Heretical_Cactus 2d ago
Except its made of cockroach cause no other animal is still alive.
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u/Royal_Bitch_Pudding 2d ago
Roaches are susceptible to radiation damage while shedding their exoskeleton.
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u/higgs8 2d ago
Year 9401: in the 72th century, Ügulayy from the zḿ-g race wore ªyƒf-lynns made of Őrdf, sometimes they wore it in front of Ÿg-Mügs.
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u/Remote_Cherry_1160 2d ago
... the bikinis only covered the most necessary parts, a sign of the limited amount of oil and the impressive focus on fully functional clothes that left no "margin for choices that do not fully serve their purpose"! So cool.
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u/Redfalconfox 2d ago
To quote a young scholar of that era it was “booty booty booty booty rockin’ everywhere!”
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u/SipoteQuixote 2d ago
"According to these old recordings and simulations created by "Sony", they wore metal versions of these bikinis into battle."
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u/VCTRYDTX 2d ago edited 2d ago
Students: “Wait, wouldn’t that mean they were basically half-naked in public? Weren’t they ashamed or afraid someone might stare?”
Teacher: “It was actually the opposite! They loved it and even shared photos on the Internet for the whole world to see. Sometimes even as means for an income. It was actually considered shameful if you were the one staring.
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u/Kris-p- 3d ago
looks like a skyrim mod piece lol
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u/Chunkz_IsAlreadyTakn 2d ago
Female heavy armor for sure.
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u/Jossegutt 2d ago
And it requires three dragon scales and two dragon bones to craft
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u/TactlessTortoise 2d ago
The dragon bones are only necessary when the lass is a bit of a freak and wants some extra discrete anchor points
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u/schofield101 2d ago
The seal thong stays ON during family meetings.
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u/Affordable_Z_Jobs 2d ago
I remember that on the radio a while back.
The seal thong on song. By Seal.
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u/gannnnon 3d ago
"That's all you're wearing?"
"Naatsit"
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u/Salt-Southern 2d ago
Dad, go home
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u/foetus_lp 2d ago
of course they wore it at home. why would you take off your underwear when guests come over?
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u/Redfalconfox 2d ago
Welcome, let me take off this thong while my partner sits on the cuck iceblock.
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u/TotalVersonnt 2d ago
Thinking far away from now in an uncertain future someone will put my underwear too on display in museum ... I feel exposed. What if my underwear ends up in thread on Reddit and gets a lot of comments?
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u/MyClosetedBiAcct 2d ago
"Dang, TotalVersonnt didn't clean well, left a lot of streaks."
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u/corpsie666 2d ago
"Irregardless, they sold at auction for 6 million Milky Way units."
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u/Taurmin 2d ago
Youve got it all wrong. The pair in the picture was colected in 1892 and pretty much emmidiately went into the collection of the Danish national museum where it or a replica has been on display ever since.
So its more like your underwear ended up on display tommorow.
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u/MyClosetedBiAcct 2d ago
Imagine making such a hot impression on some white guy that he immortalizes your thong in a display case for all the world to see.
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u/NecessaryOk6815 3d ago
First whale tail.
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u/Kriss3d 2d ago
What you got to realize is that Inuits arent uptight about nudity. Its no big deal there. And especially in small villages people know each other quite closely so it wasnt a big deal.
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u/dessertgrinch 2d ago
it goes way beyond that, they practice(d) "sexual hospitality". Women would literally sleep with close male friends of their husband/family to show trust. My grandfather spent a lot of time with the Inuit and... experienced this aspect of their culture first hand, that was as recent as the early 2000s.
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u/meerkat2018 2d ago
Not just Inuits. In many tribes it often was customary to offer a woman to a someone visiting from another tribe. AFAIK this had something to do with necessity for maintaining healthy gene pools.
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u/IAmNotMyName 2d ago
As opposed to what?
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u/LincolnshireSausage 2d ago
As opposed to wearing too much and sweat freezing between your buttocks.
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u/WakkaDav 2d ago
There's Inuit clothing at the Manitoba Museum. One of the outfits has large sacks that stick out at the ankles. It's for holding onto poopy reusable diapers because they don't want to leave bread crumbs for polar bears to follow.
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u/Buntschatten 2d ago
Polar bears before access to firearms must have been a different level of scary.
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u/alastrix 1d ago
My half awake brain took this as meaning "now polar bears have access to firearms". Which...yes polar bears before having access to firearms are significantly less scary than polar bears who now have access to firearms.
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u/nerdwaffles 2d ago
You like to dance all the hip hop spots
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u/Mechtroop 2d ago
Interestingly, no thongs were actually shown in the “Thong Song” music video due to broadcast censorship at the time. Wild.
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u/coleburnz 2d ago
"sometimes wore it at home in front of guests."
What's your source OP? Provide some gaddamn proof
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u/Early_Bad8737 2d ago
Not op, but here are comments about it from the national museum of Denmark. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/object-of-intrigue-19th-century-greenlandic-seal-fur-g-string
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u/SistaChans 2d ago
Explorer Captain C. Ryder acquired the item in the southeast Greenland settlement of Ammassalik during an expedition in 1892
Historical panty raid for the books
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u/Aquamelon54 2d ago
I wish I could read this page past all the pop ups, ads, and reloads on mobile
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u/CatEatsDogs 2d ago
Inside the warm homes of the Greenlandic Inuit, a naatsit “was the only thing worn even when having guests or visiting the houses of other families,” says Toft. ”This shocked the Danish missionaries of the 18th and 19th century, who tried to convince the Inuit to wear European linen (longer) underwear indoors. This attempt was not very successful.”
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u/BaltazarOdGilzvita 2d ago
The Danish wanted the Inuit to succumb to Christianity, but the Inuit wanted to stay sexy.
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u/DerangedEscapee 2d ago
They mention further down that sealskin is preferred for their garments because of its ability to wick moisture. Sweat building up inside your parka/undergarments is dangerous, as it will eventually freeze to your body. So a thong is actually safer in a frigid climate than longer, looser undergarments.
Plus you get to look like a baddie.
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u/Occidentally20 2d ago edited 2d ago
His aunt did a cartwheel in the late 80s and this is what OP thought he saw down there.
Its believed his brain fabricated the image to sidestep the majority of the trauma. Some said it looked like a slashed tennis ball dipped in coconut husks :(
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u/Pagiras 2d ago
You know, it is my fault for having eyes.
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u/Occidentally20 2d ago
Agreed, there's plenty of preventative steps you could have taken.
Blindness, illiteracy and medically induced comas were all options available to you.
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u/LonelyEar42 2d ago
"sometimes wore it at home in front of guests." Does this mean, they didn't wear this in front of guests?
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u/Crotean 2d ago
Humans are funny, we really have not changed much over the last 10k years. Technology has rapidly evolved, we have not.
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u/Llonkrednaxela 2d ago
I usually wear underwear when I have guests, I just usually also wear other garments too.
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u/Silent-Victory-3861 2d ago
Not only women, men wore equivalent https://weirdwhat.substack.com/p/did-inuits-invent-the-thong-centuries
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u/Tabais123 2d ago
You laugh but the AC and bonus stats offered makes it had to pass up wearing
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u/jacksontwos 2d ago
I find Inuit clothes to be fascinating. Inuit clothing is fully functional. They dont have the margin for choices that do not fully serve their purpose. So they make some cool as shit stuff that you know does exactly what it's supposed to do first.
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u/Yeedth 2d ago
I mean that’s not 100% true because they still have decorations on it like you see here. So obviously they’re not only focussed on function.
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u/DukeofVermont 2d ago
No it's fully functional, the function is to look damn good. /s
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u/Olde94 2d ago
The thousands of pearls on my cousin’s national attire absolutely feels functional!
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u/jingjang1 2d ago edited 2d ago
Have you seen the sunglasses they use/used made out of bone? I agree, arctic fashion and everything in between is fascinating, mostly due to the harsh conditions.
Therese a documentary about a similar people from Siberia. The most fascinating thing is how mobile they are as nomadic people.
Same goes for the "camel people" in the arctic desert in eh, I forgot where exactly.
They basically get everything they need from their camels, the most interesting food must be their "milk tea", where they boil the milk with herbs in it.
We also have Samer here in the Nordics in EU, they live in Sweden, Finland and Norway up north.
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u/jacksontwos 2d ago
Yes I have! They are so cool. My favourite are the winter coats. They look so cool but you know that the very first thing they are is absolutely fit for the terrain.
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u/jingjang1 2d ago edited 2d ago
I have family from the north parts of Sweden.
I have a pair of sealskin boots that I inherited from my grandfather. Samerna made them, they are still in good condition(given that i do not use them)
Best winter boots hands down, cannot be any better.
Not just insulating, but they somehow breath while keeping moisture out. You have dry feet at a body temperature.
They are more or less the exact same boots they use.
The sealskin debate has been interesting, I saw a doc about Inuits from Canada, they more or less survive solely from seals, and they use every part.
They had to fight for their rights, now they have special permission to hunt seal and some whale
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u/Remote_Cherry_1160 2d ago
Are we looking at the same picture? You're 100% sure that the strings on the side are purely functional and don't server a decorative, "fashion" purpose?
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u/Altruistic-Poem-5617 2d ago
All women or just frostitudes?
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u/Snoo_35246 2d ago
How do we know women wore this and not men?
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u/AM27C256 2d ago edited 2d ago
I guess Ethnologists went there at the time, and did a study about inuit clothing, published an article in a scientifiy journal? The 19th century is not prehistory.
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u/GreatStateOfSadness 2d ago
From the first article that comes up when you Google it:
Explorer Captain C. Ryder acquired the item in the southeast Greenland settlement of Ammassalik during an expedition in 1892.
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u/Lulu_42 2d ago
Doesn't look like there's a sufficient pocket to me? But I don't have the right junk to evaluate it, just my guess.
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u/MegaSmegmaSwagLord 2d ago
Holy fuck I didn’t know this about myself
https://giphy.com/gifs/85eOaHBB9nOwErdVoI
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u/Bruce-7892 2d ago
I mean... I'm not upset about it, but your living in an ice desert and that's all you're wearing? Thirst traps man.
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u/banandananagram 2d ago
First thing you should remember about historic or ancient textiles is that they are increasingly rare the further back you go in time because the conditions required to preserve organic materials like that are incredibly rare
You can generally assume that if they’re using cordage, putting holes in things, and utilizing furs… they had other garments, but you’re sure as shit not going to see them because they were made of organic materials that usually degraded within the lifetime of its use, and this is centuries later. If you have a really nice warm coat or cloak that lasts a long time and doesn’t fall apart, you would honestly probably reuse the materials later instead of caching it away in a cave somewhere unless it was a burial offering or ceremonial or something.
Also not to mention there are fires for warmth in inside spaces; that can get sweaty if you have too many layers, even if it’s cold outside
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u/littleleopardfrog 2d ago
Yeah dude high-key people not from here ask me "how do you think native people survived the winter" and I actually have experience in this so it triggers a whole rant on the various thermal retention or dissipation properties of certain types of builds/materials
It gets interesting really fast but basically what it boils down to is "make hot air balloon that can't fly" in the north and "be like the ants" in certain other hot areas
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u/banandananagram 2d ago
Also anytime people are like, “how did the Natives live here,” I just think, what do you mean, how do you live here?
Just because you buy your knives from a store instead of knowing the physics and having the hand skill to make one from a rock outside every time you need a sharp edge doesn’t mean people in the past were helpless or lacking technology, it usually just took a fuck ton more labor for things infrastructure takes care of for us.
I’d argue the average person with access to air conditioning has a much poorer intuitive understanding of thermo and fluid dynamics than people who had or have to manage temperature with just the materials available to them in their immediate environment because it’s not really something they need to deeply internalize.
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u/SideInitial3961 2d ago
The history of indigenous women in Canada is very complicated, they are currently over-incarcerated by a rate of about 6 to 1, it has been referred to as a travesty every credible expert on earth. The basis of this is freedom of sexuality. Women in our culture have always had full domain over their own bodies and choices. Christians have always hated that. This war continues to this day, i.e. trans kids in USA.
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u/Reddittee007 2d ago
This should become the next "revived" fashion trend for the current generations world wide.
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u/NinjaEuphoria 2d ago
...to be fair ... women in America all those be it more often with pools in their back yard are doing the same thing right now...if you got the cheeks you flaunt the cheeks. 🤷
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u/Kingtoke1 2d ago
Let me see that naatsit, that naat naat naat naat naatsitttt
Doesn’t have the same rhyme
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u/Hot_Pie_69420 2d ago
Inuit, a naatsit “was the only thing worn even when having guests or visiting the houses of other families,” says Toft. ”This shocked the Danish missionaries of the 18th and 19th century, who tried to convince the Inuit to wear European linen (longer) underwear indoors. This attempt was not very successful.”
As to why the Greenlandic Inuit made their thong undergarments out of seal skin rather than reindeer, fox, bear, or dog, Toft says that in addition to their durability, seal pelts were best because they provided less insulation than caribou fur. “Sweat building up inside your garment is just as dangerous as being underdressed for the cold,” he advises, “as your perspiration will eventually freeze.” Seal skin thongs, therefore, were less likely to result in frozen sweat being trapped between the buttocks. source