688 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1893. 



biii/c, cither red, l)liie, green, or yellow, with a broad border always of a different 

 color. The ui)per classes cover this sheepskin cloak eitlier witli brocade <.r witli 

 silk. (Cnniiinghani, loc. sup. cit.) 



In Hhiitan the dress is a loose woolen coat reaching to tlie knees, l)onnd round the 

 waist by a thick fold of cotton cloth. The full front of the coat is used as a pocket 

 and is well stored with bctelnut, prepared chununi, etc. The women's dress is like 

 that of the Sikkiniese, a long (doak with loose sleeves. Their chief ornaments are 

 am))er beads, corals with those who (;an afforilthem, and large pins. (Ashley Eden 

 Report on the State of Hootan, pp. 129, LSO.) 



7/<r/.s.— Among the Kokoiior Tibetans, on accoimt of tlie custom pre- 

 vailing' among- tlie men of sliaving- all the liair oil" tlie head, some head 

 covei' is invariably worn. A low- pointed cap of green, red, or blue 

 cloth or cotton and faced with lambskin is the most common head cover 

 Avorn by men and women (pi. 3). Tiiis ca|> is also worn by the IMon- 

 gols in this region, but the latter usually add to it a red tassel or fringe 

 fixed to the apex and hanging all over the crown.* 



In winter the men wear a pointed cap of felt, sometimes covered with 

 blue or red silk, with ear flaps, a large fla]) behind and one in front, 

 which is frecpiently worn slightly inclined forward so as to make a 

 visor. These flaps are covered with fox skin (pi. 4). The women and 

 girls of all ages wear, winter and summer, the low-]»ointed cap described 

 above, though many always go bareheaded. Some of the wealthy ones 

 wear a round cap wadded or made of felt and covered with silk, with a 

 wide turned-up brim faced with fur, fox, or sable. It is copied on the 

 Mongol hat tor women, worn alike among the eastern as well as the 

 western tribes of that race. 



The above are the hats peculiar to the Kokonor Tibetans, and the one 

 shown in pi. 3, tig. 2 ai>i)ears, from Chinese works, to have been worn 

 by them as early as the eighth century of our era. But besides these 

 national ones, the Chinese felt hat is frequently worn by them, usually 

 dark brown or black, with a brocaded band around the turned-up brim. 

 This hat, which is very jK)|)ular throughout Tibet, is woin by both men 

 and women. A turban nuide of a piece of rather coarse raw silk dyed 

 purple, about ten feet long and a foot broad, is also frequently worn by 

 the men among the Kokonor Tibetans and in all other ] tarts of the 

 country. 



In those sections of Tibet where the men never trim their hair, and 

 where it forms a thick and tangled mass falling over the shoulders, 

 only cut in a fringe just over the eyes, the jworer people either wear 

 no head cover at all or only a piece of cloth or sheepskin arranged so 

 as to come down over the ears. This rude head cover has no top to the 

 crown; the tangled hair under it is a sufiicient protection against the 

 weather. A summer hat of a peculiar form is, however, worn in eastern 



* According to a Chinese work entitled Hsi-Tsang fu, p. 2, these Kokonor Tibetans 

 are descended from Turkish tribes which used to live in the Altai Mountains, and 

 who at that tune wore conical iron helmets shaped like the caps these Tibetans now 



wear. 



