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THE ESKIMO ABOUT BERING STRAIT 



I KTH. ANN. 18 



is a handsomely made hood fashioned from the skin of a wolf s head, 

 the nose of the animal resting directly over the brow and extending 

 back over the head, so that the ears of the animal lie on the nape of 

 the wearer s neck. From just back of the nose to a point nearly 

 between the ears the skin is slit and an oval piece of skin, tanned with 

 the hair off, is set in, and along it are sewed ten parallel, longitudinal 

 rows of blue beads. Little strings of red, white, blue, and black beads 



are attached to the 

 sides of thei head 

 from just back of the 

 wolf s nose, down 

 alongeach side, two- 

 thirds of the way to 

 the ears. Sewed to 

 the front border of 

 the hood is a strip of 

 long-hair wolfskin, 

 and two strings at 

 the corners in front 

 serve to tie it about 

 the wearer s chin. 



From the Yukon 

 month northward to 

 Point Barrow the 

 frocks of the men are 

 cut a tritie longer 

 behind than in front. 

 South of the Yukon 

 these garments are 

 cut nearly the same 

 length all around. 



Many of the Ko- 

 wak and Noatak 

 men seen at Hotham 

 inlet wear hunting 

 shirts of tanned 

 moose- skin similar 

 to those used by the 

 Tinne of the inte 

 rior, from whom they were probably obtained. These Eskimo also wear 

 rolies made from reindeer skin tanned with the h;iir on. These are 

 made to fasten over the shoulders by two cords, and fall behind nearly 

 to the ground like a cloak. They are usually bordered with a fringe 

 formed by cutting the skin into little strips, and on the inside the 

 totem signs of the owners are marked in red paint. 



From one of the Diomede islands I obtained the garment illustrated 

 in plate xvi) a frock without a hood, made from the skin of a guillemot. 



FIG. Man s wolf-head summer hood from Point Hope (i). 



