10 CHEPEWYANS. 



some distance. In the camp a smoky, greasy 

 blanket of English manufacture is worn over the 

 shoulders by day, and forms, with the clothes, the 

 bedding by night. 



In winter the skins of fawn rein-deer, retaining 

 the hair, are substituted for the shammy leather, 

 and a large robe of the same material is thrown 

 over the shoulders, and hangs down to the feet, in 

 place of the blanket. As the preparation of so 

 much leather and dressed fur keeps the women 

 busy, they are glad to use English cloth, of blue, 

 red, or green colours, or Canadian capots of white 

 or blue cloth, which they acquire at the trading 

 posts in exchange for venison or furs. But with 

 regard to the winter dress especially, the substi- 

 tution of the produce of the English loom for 

 their native leather is a loss both of comfort and 

 of appearance. 



The women's dress resembles the men's, except 

 that the shirt is somewhat longer, and, for the 

 most part, is accompanied by a petticoat which 

 reaches nearly to the knee. 



The form of the dress here described is common 

 to the whole 'Tinne nation, and also to the Crees 

 and Dakotas, though the material varies with the 

 district ; moose deer, red deer, or bison leather, 

 being used in the south and west, where those 

 animals abound ; and the Hare Indians make their 



