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finger. Plate xx, 7, illustrates an example of these gloves from King 

 island. 



Another curious pair of gloves, from Norton sound, is shown in 

 plate xx, 5. These are made with separate divisions for the thumb and 

 the forefinger, the other fingers being provided with a single cover. 

 They are made like other gloves used along the American coast in that 

 they have the parts covering the fingers in separate pieces sewed on 

 the piece forming the hand. 



The gloves illustrated in plate xx, 6, were obtained on the Dioniede 

 islands, Bering strait; they are made of tanned reindeer skin, with the 

 hair side inward. The front of the gloves is a dingy russet brown in 

 color and the skin on the back is hard-tanned and colored chestnut 

 brown. The back of the hand and the wrist have ornamental patterns 

 in red, white, and blackish stitching, made by sewing in white reindeer 

 hairs and red woolen yarn with sinew thread. These are made in the 

 style peculiar to these islands and the coast of Siberia already described, 

 the pieces of skin sewed into the gores being pale buff in color. 



The glove shown in plate xx, 2, from Anderson river, British 

 America, is similar in style to the gloves from the head of Norton 

 sound. It is made of reindeer skin. The mittens used are of a com 

 mon pattern, with a triangular thumb. They are made of the skin of 

 seals, reindeer, dogs, wolves, white bear, cormorant, murre, and salmon, 

 and are sometimes of woven grass. 



For use while at sea long mittens reaching to the elbow or above are 

 made of well tanned sealskin and are provided at their upper border 

 with a cord for drawing them tightly against the arm. These mittens 

 are waterproof and protect the hands of the hunter from water during 

 cold weather. 



Plate xxi, 0, represents a typical pair of these mittens measuring 

 21 inches in length. They are well made, with a piece of tanned skin 

 welted into the main seam. Near the upper border is a broad strip 

 of sealskin, and a strip of the same extends down each side of the seam, 

 running thence to the end of the thumb. Set about the lower border 

 is a wide band of skin; near the upper edge and also along each side 

 of the bauds running to the thumb are tufts of white seal bristles with 

 little tufts of young seal fur dyed a reddish brown. 



From Sledge island 1 obtained a similar pair of mittens made from 

 waterproof tanned sealskin, and which reach only a little above the 

 wrist. One of these is shown in plate xxi, 3. 



On lower Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers mittens made of salmon skin 

 are also used. Along all of the coast region the skin of the hair seal, 

 tanned with the hair on, is used for this purpose. All three of the latter 

 kinds are used mainly during wet weather in summer or at sea. 



Mittens of woven grass are also made on the lower Yukon and thence 

 to the Kuskokwim. For winter use they make clumsily shaped mit 

 tens from the skins of dogs, reindeer, wolves, and cormorants. 



