120 THE POINT BARROW ESKIMO. 



women nowadays often line the outer frock witli drilling, bright calico, 

 or even bedticking, and then wear it with this side out. 



The frocks for both sexes, while made on the same general pattern 

 as those of the other Eskimo, differ in many details from those of east 

 ern America. For instance, the hood is not fitted in round the throat 

 with the pointed throat pieces or fringed with wolf or wolverine skin 

 until we reach the Eskimo of the Anderson Kiver. Here, as shown by 

 the specimens in the National Museum, the throat pieces are small and 

 wide apart, and the men s hoods only are fringed with wolverine skin. 

 The women s hoods are very large everywhere in the east for the better 

 accommodation of the child, which is sometimes carried wholly in the 

 hood. 



The hind flap of the skirt of the woman s frock, except in Greenland, 

 has developed into a long narrow train reaching the ground, while the 

 front flap is very much decreased in size (see references just quoted). 

 The modern frock in Greenland is very short and has very small Haps 

 (see illustrations in Kink s Tales, etc., pp. $ and 0), but the ancient 

 fashion, judging from the plate in Crantz s History of Greenland, re 

 ferred to above, was much more like that worn by the western Eskimo. 

 In the Anderson and Mackenzie regions the flaps are short and rounded 

 and the front flap considerably the smaller. There is less difference in 

 the general shape of the men s frocks. The hood is generally rounded 

 and close fitting, except in Labrador and Baffin Land, where it is 

 pointed on the crown. The skirt is sometimes prolonged into rounded 

 flaps and a short scallop in front, as at Iglulik and some parts of Baffin 

 Land. 2 Petitot 3 gives a full description of the dress of a &quot;chief&quot; from 

 the Anderson River. He calls the frock a &quot; blouse e chaucree par cot&amp;lt; et 

 termin^e eii queues arrondies par devant et par derriere.&quot; The style of 

 frock worn at Point Barrow is the prevalent one along the western coast 

 of America nearly to the Kuskokwim. On this river long hoodless 

 frocks reaching nearly or quite to the ground are worn. 4 The frock 

 worn in Kadiak was hoodless and long, with short sleeves and large 

 armholes beneath these. 5 



The men of the Siberian Eskimo and sedentary Ohukches, as at 

 Plover Bay, wear in summer a loose straight-bottomed frock without a 

 hood, but with a frill of long fur round the neck. The winter frock is 

 described as having &quot;a square hood without trimmings, but capable of 

 being drawn, like the mouth of a bag, around the face by a string in. 



1 Egede, p. 131 ; Crantz, i, p. 137 and PI. III. (Greenland) ; Hesscls, op. cit., p. SKi (Smith Sound married 

 women only) ; Parry, 2nd Voy., p. 494, ami numerous illustrations, passim (Iglulik) ; Packard, Naturalist 

 Vol. 19, p. 6, PI. XXIII (Labrador), and Kumlien, 1. c., p. 33 (Cumberland Gulf). See also several speci 

 mens in the National Museum from I ngava (collected by L. M. Turner) and the Mackenzie and Ander 

 son rivers (collected by MacFarlane). The hoods from the last region, while, still much larger and 

 wider than those in fashion at Point Harrow, an 1 not so enormous as the more eastern ones. The little 

 peak on the top of the woman s hood at Point Harrow may be a reminiscence of the pointed hood worn 

 by the women mentioned by liessels, op. cit. 



2 Parry, 2d Voy., p. 494. and 1st Voy., p. 283. 



3 Monographic, etc., p. xiv. 



4 Petroff. o]i. cit, p. 134. Pis. 4 and !&amp;gt;. Sec also specimens in the National Museum. 

 c Petrotl&quot;, op. cit., p. 139, and Liscansky, Voy., etc., p. 194. 



