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TRANSACTIONS OP THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 



[Vol. IV. 



Not uncommonly these wallets or knap-sacks are made entirely of 

 dried salmon skins sewn together. Once the flesh of the fish has reached 

 the proper degree of stiffness, it is carefully torn off and one of the skins 

 is shredded into fine filaments which serve as thread. 



The ju'kez generally does duty in connection with heavy burdens, 

 which means for anybody au fait with native sociology that it is the 

 appanage of the women. The men have also a packing bag of their 

 own intended as a receptacle of such light burdens as are incident to short 

 trips, and which shall be described further on. 



The fourth variety of leather bags is the dog-bag, which is so much 



like a common saddle-bag that I refrain from 

 figuring it here. No harnessing device is con- 

 nected with it, it is simply lashed on the sides of 

 the canine with a separate line. 



Fig. 136 also represents a double-bag; but 

 this is proper to the huntsman. In one end of it 

 he keeps his provision of powder, and in the 

 other that of shot or balls. Both halves of the 

 bag are shut by tying around the strings attached 

 immediately below the common or middle open- 

 ing. Out of this ammunition pouch the hunts- 

 man fills up as often as necessary his powder horn, and his ornamented 

 shot pouch which are parts of his accoutrement. 



Fig. 136. 



tig- 137- 



Here we have a Yjwdn-zdz or fire-bag. Its use has ceased with the 

 introduction of matches, and its name is now given to a small pouch of 

 different pattern, though somewhat similar in intent. The former served 

 to carry about or keep at home the tinders and parched hay originally 



