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MAN S FROCK. 



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gram (Fiji. &amp;gt;&quot; &quot;) The middle piece is the skin of ;i reindeer head, 

 the two clieek pieces and median chin piece of nioiiiitain sheep skin. 

 When the hood is put together the lower edge of it is sewed to the neck 

 of the body, which has the hack and front of nearly the same si/.e and 

 shape (diagram, Fig. (it) l&amp;gt;), though the back is a little longer in the 



SHirt 



Km. .19. Piittrm i.fslnv]mkiii frock. 



skirt. There is no regular seam on the shoulders, where irregular bits 

 of white ermine skin -AW. pieced together so as to fit. From the armpit 

 on each side runs a narrow strip of sheepskin between back and front. 

 The sleeve is a long piece made of three white ermine skins put together 

 lengthwise, doubled above, with a straight strip of sheepskin let in be 

 low, and enlarged near the body by two triangular gussets (front and 

 back) let in between the ermine and sheepskin. The wristbands are 

 broad pieces of sheepskin. The skirts are of white ermine skins pieced 

 together irregularly, but the skins composing the front, back, and 

 sleeves are split down the back of the animal and neatly cut into long 

 rectangular pieces, with the 

 feet and tails still attached. 

 They are arranged in a pat 

 tern of vertical stripes, two 

 skins fastened together end 

 to end making a stripe, 

 which is the same on the 

 front and the back. There 

 is a brown stripe down the middle, then two white stripes on each side, 

 and a brown stripe on each edge. The hood is bound round the edge 

 with white sheepskin and bordered with wolfskin. There are shoulder 

 straps and a border round the skirt of edging of the usual materials, but 

 slightly different arrangement, and tagged with small red glass beads. 



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Flo. 00. Pattern of ermine frock, a, hood; b, \uu\\. 



