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THE POINT HARROW ESKIMO. 



Trimmings of edging like that above described, or of plain wolverine 

 fur round the skirts and wrists, are common, and the. shoulder straps 

 rather less so. Frocks are sometimes also fringed on the skirts and 

 seams with little strips of deerskin, after what the Point Barrow people 

 called the &quot; Kuiimudlifi &quot; fashion. 1 Nearly all the natives wear outer 

 frocks of deerskin, but on great occasions elaborately made garments 

 of other materials are sometimes seen. Nos. 50758 [87] (Fig. 57, ft and 

 b) and 50757 [11) (Fig. 58, a and b) are two such frocks. No. 50758 [87] 

 is of mountain slice]) skin, nearly white. As shown in the diagrams 

 (Fig. 59, n, b, &amp;lt;;,) the general pattern is not unlike the type described, 

 but there are more pieces in the hood and several small gussets are in 

 serted to improve the set of the garment. The trimmings are shoulder 



FIG. 58. Man s frock of ermine skins, front and back. 



straps, and a border round the skirt of edging like that described above, 

 and the seams of the throat pieces are piped with the dark almost 

 hairless deerskin, which sets them off from the rest of the coat. The 

 wrists have narrow borders of wolf fur, and there was a wolfskin fringe 

 to the hood, which was removed before, the garment was ottered for sale. 

 No. 50757 [11] is a very handsome garment (Fig. 58). The body 

 and sleeves arc of white, and brown (winter and summer) ermine skins 

 arranged in an elegant pattern, and the hood of reindeer and mountain 

 slice]) skin. This is the only frock seen in which the hood is not fitted 

 to the sides of the, throat by curved and pointed throat pieces, after the 

 fashion universal among the western Eskimo, from Oape Bathurst at 

 least to Norton Sound. The pattern of the hood is shown by the dia- 



1 TLwe are several frocks so trimmed in llio Katioual Museum, from the Maekeu/ie uml Anderson 

 region. 



