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his account of the Yukagirs, he says : " Their dress is now the same as 

 the Russians of these parts : it was formerly Hke that of the Tungoose, 

 whose tailors they still remain, embroidering the ornamental parts of 

 their clothing, for which they receive in return articles of dress, skins or 

 furs." Again, in his illustration of a Tungus settlement, facing page 44, 

 he represents a native clad with an inner garment of a light colour, 

 descending like a petticoat, to the knee, and an outer one, much darker, 

 like a sleeved but open overcoat, falling a trifle lower. The store-house 

 represented is very similar to that pictured by Father Morice, and the 

 huts are circular, with conical roof made of branches, rising from a low 

 wall of stakes or boards. 



Of the Denes, on the other hand, Mackenzie writes : " There are no 

 people more attentive to the comforts of their dress, or less anxious 

 respecting its exterior appearance. In the winter it is composed of the 

 skins of deer and their fawns, and dressed as fine as any chamois leather^ 

 in the hair. In the summer their apparel is the same, except that it is 

 prepared without the hair. Their shoes and leggins are sewed together, 

 the latter reaching upwards to the middle, and being supported by a 

 belt, under which a small piece of leather is drawn to cover the private 

 parts, the ends of which fall down both before and behind. In the shoes 

 they put the hair of the moose or reindeer with additional pieces of 

 leather, as socks. The shirt, or coat, when girded round the waist, 

 reaches to the middle of the thigh, and the mittens are sewed to the 

 sleeves, or are suspended by strings from the shoulders. A ruff or 

 tippet surrounds the neck, and the skin of the head of the deer forms a 

 curious kind of cap. A robe made of several deer or fawn skins sewed 

 together covers the whole. This dress is worn single or double, but 

 always in the winter, with the hair within and without. Thus arrayed, 

 a Chipewyan will lay himself down on the ice in the middle of a lake, 

 and repose in comfort. * * * 'pj-jg snovvshoes are of very superior 

 workmanship. The inner part of their frame is straight, and it is 

 pointed at both ends, with that in front turned up. They are also 

 laced with great neatness with thongs made of deer-skin." Hearne has 

 little to say on the matter of dress, beyond mentioning the fact that the 

 attire of the Northern Indians was made of Cariboo skin, ornamented 

 with its hair, and thus a receptacle for vermin ; he also describes their 

 snowshoes as quite different from those of the Southern Indians or 

 Crees. 



Father Morice quotes the Rev. E. Petitot as follows : " Besides the 

 blouse of white skin, with tail appendages, decorated with fringes and 

 metallic trinkets, which was the primitive costume of the Dene-dindjies, 



