NELSON] FACE PROTECTORS FROCKS 35 



Around the back of the neck is a border of black-bear skin with the 

 long hair erect. The lower border of the garment is edged with a nar 

 row strip of white-reindeer skin, succeeded by a border of red-bear skin 

 witli tufts of white bear fur sewed on all around at short intervals. 



The people on the islands of Bering strait and the adjacent shores 

 use a kind of face protector made of a ring of white-bear skin, which is 

 drawn on over the head and fitted round the face. These are held in 

 place by a narrow band of the same material extending over the top of 

 the head ; another strip from each side joins the other at the back. 



During summer the men usually wear a light frock made from the 

 skins of the marmot, mink, muskrat, fawns of reindeer, or the summer 

 reindeer with its light coat of hair. In winter two of these garments 

 are frequently worn, and those of the winter deerskin with its heavier 

 coat of hair are used in severe weather. 



A man s frock from Cape Vancouver (plate xvn) is made of reindeer- 

 fawn skin and has a hood which forms a part of the garment instead of 

 being worn separately as is done farther inland. From the shoulders 

 hanging down both in front and behind depend broad strips of reindeer 

 skin with the fur cut short and having attached to their tips strings of 

 white, red, and blue beads from five to six inches in length with narrow 

 strips of wolverine fur. From the middle of the hood behind hangs a 

 strip of reindeer skin, tipped with wolverine fur. Little tassels of red- 

 bear skin are attached to strips of white-deer skin, set in, gore-like, 

 over the tops of shoulders. Two sharp-pointed gores of white deer 

 skin are set m above the waist. 



The hood has an inner border of arctic-hare skin followed by a strip 

 of wolf skin. The lower end of the sleeves is bordered by a baud of 

 white-deer skin, edged by a narrow border of mink fur, the lower edge 

 of the garment being bordered in the same manner. This is one of 

 the most ornamental garments of the kind seen in that district. 



The frocks worn by the women of this region are made similar to 

 those of the men except that they are cut up a little farther on the sides 

 so as to make a more conspicuously pendent flap before and behind. 



From the Yukon mouth northward the women s frocks are much 

 more handsomely made, the mottled white skin of the tame reindeer, 

 obtained from the Siberian people, affording a good material for the 

 production of ornamental patterns. Some of these garments are very 

 richly ornamented; they are deeply cut up along each side, so that 

 before and behind the skirt hangs in a long, broad, round flap. The 

 hoods are bordered by wolverine and wolf skin, and the ends of the 

 sleeves and the lower edge of the garment are trimmed with wolf or 

 wolverine skin, usually the latter. A typical garment of this kind 

 (number 64272), from Cape Prince of Wales, has the hood made of a 

 central oval piece extending up from the back of the garment as a 

 narrow strip which broadens above. The hood is bordered on each 

 side by short-hair white-reindeer skin which extends to the shoulders 

 and then divides and forms a long, narrow gore down the front and 



