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THE ESKIMO AT PORT CLARENCE. 



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recognition of the fact that in opposition to what we commonly 

 see stated, contact with men of civilised race appears to have 

 been to the advantage and improvement of the savage in an 

 economical and moral point of view. Most of them now lived 

 in summer-tents of thin cotton cloth ; many wore European 

 clothes, others were clad in trousers of seal or reindeer-skin and 

 a light, soft, often beautifully ornamented ^cs^" of marmot skin, 

 over which in rainy weather was worn an overcoat made of 

 pieces of gut sewn together. The arrangement of the hair 

 resembled that of the Chukches. The women were tattooed with 



ESKIMO AT PORT CLARENCE. 



(After a photograph by L.'Palander.) 



some lines on the chin. Many of the men wore small 

 moustaches, some even a scanty beard, while others had 

 attempted the American goatee. Most of them, but not all, 

 had two holes from six to seven millimetres in length, cut in the 

 lips below the corners of the mouth. In these holes were worn 

 large pieces of bone, glass, or stone (figure 9, page 578). But 

 these ornaments were often removed, and then the edges of the 

 large holes closed so "much that the face was not much dis- 

 figured. Many had in addition a similar hole forward in the 



