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HOODS AND CAPS 



FIG. 3 Fox-skin cap. 



strip, about two inches wide, of reindeer skin and has a narrow band 

 extending up from this over the crown. About the lower border, on the 

 sides and behind, extends a fringe consisting- of narrow strips of rein 

 deer skin, 12 to 15 inches in length, which 

 hangs down the back. 



Another variety of hood worn in this district 

 is made of a band of deerskin, with the hair 

 on, sewed to fit about the brow like a turban 

 with the crown of skins of Parry s marmot, or 

 of white or blue foxes. When the marmot 

 skins are used they are usually sewed in a 

 series so as to hang behind like an open sack. 

 If the fox skins are used they are sewed so 

 that the head of the fox rests on the crown of 

 the wearer with the body and tail hanging 

 down over the back. These caps are very pic 

 turesque and give the wearer a remarkably 

 dignified appearance. 



. In the region about Askinuk curious small 

 fur caps or hoods are worn, fitting snugly about 

 the head and fringed behind by a few little 

 tags or strips of skin, but which do not hang- 

 far down the back like those last described. 

 These hoods are made in ornamental patterns from various kinds of 

 skin. 



A hood of reindeer and marmot skin from Askinuk (figure 4) has 



a circular piece of reindeer skin 

 set in the middle of the crown ; 

 this is surrounded by two strips 

 of white reindeer skin taken 

 from the leg of the animal with 

 the hair clipped. Following 

 this is a broader strip of similar 

 reindeer skin, alternating with 

 a square of dark-hair reindeer- 

 skin on the top and marmot 

 skins on each side, succeeded 

 by another strip of reindeer skin 

 and bordered about the face by 

 a narrow fringe of mink fur. 

 Similar caps were obtained at 

 Konigunugumut. 



In summer the Eskimo of 

 Noatak and Kowak rivers wear bead-ornamented caps similar to those 

 of the Tinne along the upper Yukon. On the shore of the Arctic at 

 Point Hope the specimen represented in figure 5 was obtained. This 

 18 ETH 3 



FIG. 4 Man s hood of reindeer and marmot skin and 

 mink fur (J). 



