EAR-PENDANTS HAIR ORNAMENTS 



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the crested auklet, in a double row four or five inches in length and 

 terminating in one or more beads. 



HAIR ORNAMENTS AND COMBS 



The tonsure is universally practiced by the Eskimo wherever I 

 traveled among them, whether on the American or on the Siberian 

 coast, with the, possible exception of some of them in the upper Kusko- 



FIG. 16 Hair combs d 3 5 ). 



kwim region. The general style is to shave the top of the head, leaving 

 a narrow fringe of hair about the. border, which usually is kept trimmed 

 evenly two or three inches in length around the head. 



The women dress their hair by parting it along the median line and 

 arranging it in a pendent braid or club-shape mass behind the ear, as 

 shown in the accompanying illustration (plate xxvi) of some women at 

 Cape Smith. Sometimes the ends of the braids are united at the back 

 of the head, or they may be arranged with strips of fur or strings of 



