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THE VOYAGE OF THE VEGA. 



[chap. 



On the other parts of the moccasin the hair is outwards. Within 

 the shoes are seal-skin stockings and hay. The head covering 

 consists of a hood embroidered with beads, over which in severe 

 cold is drawn an outer hood bordered with dog-skin. The outer 

 hood is often quite close under the chin, and extends in a very 

 well-fitting way over the shoulders. To a complete dress there 

 also belong a skin neckerchief or boa, and a neck covering of 

 multiple reindeer-skins, or of different kinds of skins sewn 

 together in chess-board-like squares. In summer and far into 

 the autumn the men go bareheaded, although they clip the hair 

 on the crown of the head close to the root. 



During the warm season of the year a number of the winter 

 wraps are laid off in proportion to the increase of the heat, so 



CHVKCH FACE-TATTOO I NO. 



(After a drawing by A. Stuxberg.) 



that the dress finally consists merely of a pesh, an overcoat, and 

 a pair of trousers. The summer moccasins are often as long in 

 the leg as our sea-boots. In the tent the men wear only short 

 trousers reaching to the hip, together with leather belts (health- 

 belts) at the waist and on the arms. The man's dress is not 

 much ornamented. On the other hand the men often wear 

 strings of beads in the ears, or a skin band set with large, 

 tastefully arranged beads or a leather band with some large 

 beads on the brow. The leather band they will not willingly 

 part with, and a woman told us that the beads in it indicate 

 the number of enemies the wearer has killed. I am, however, 

 quite certain that this was only an empty boast. Probably our 



