﻿380 KUTCHIN. 



are encircled with black; a stripe of the same hue 

 is drawn down the middle of the nose; and a blotch 

 is made on the upper part of each cheek. The 

 forehead is crossed by many narrow red stripes, and 

 the chin is streaked alternately with red and black. 

 The Chepewyans and Crees paint their faces in a 

 similar manner. 



The outer shirt of the Kutchin is formed of the 

 skins of fawn rein-deer, dressed with the hair on, 

 after the manner of the Hare Indians, Dog-ribs, 

 and other Chepewyan tribes, but in its form it 

 resembles the shirts of the Eskimos, being furnished 

 with peaked skirts, though of smaller size. The 

 men wear these peaks before and behind ; the 

 women have larger back skirts but none in front. 

 A broad band of beads is worn across the shoulders 

 and breast of the shirt, and the hinder part of the 

 dress is fringed with fancy beads and small leathern 

 tassels, wound round with dyed porcupine quills, 

 and strung with the silvery fruit of the oleaster.* 

 The inferior garment of both sexes is a pair of deer- 

 skin pantaloons, the shoes being of the same piece, 

 or sewed to them. A stripe of beads, two inches 

 broad, strung in alternate red and white squares, 

 runs from the ankle to the hip along the seam of 

 the trowsers, and bands of beads encircle the ankles. 



* Elisagnus argentea. 



