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THE POINT BARROW ESKIMO. 



The former owner of this beautiful frock (since dead) was always very 

 elegantly dressed. His deerskin clothes were always much trimmed, and 

 he owned an elegant frock of foxskins, alternately blue and white, with 

 a hood of deerskin, which we did not succeed in obtaining for the col 

 lection. (The &quot;jumper of mixed white and blue fox pelts,&quot; seen by Dr. 

 Kane at Ita, must have been like this.) 



The, woman s frock differs from that worn by the men, in the shape 

 of the hood and skirts, as mentioned above, and it is also slightly fitted 



FIG. 61. Woman s frock, front and back. 



in to the waist and made to &quot;bag&quot; somewhat in the back, in order to 

 give room for carrying the child. The pattern is considerably different 

 from that of the, man s frock, as will be seen from the description of the 

 type specimen (the only one in the collection), No. 74041 [17!)lj (Fig. 

 61, a and I), which is of deerskin. The hood is raised into a little point 

 on top and bulges out into a sort of rounded pocket at the nape. This 

 is a holiday garment, made of strips of skin from the shanks and belly 

 of the reindeer, pieced together so as to make a pattern of alternating 



Second Crinuell Eip., vol. 1, p. 203. 



