MURDOCH.] 



MANTLES. 



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Ra.ro. Man s cloak of deerakin. 



serted in the edge.&quot; 1 According to Nordenskiold, 2 the men at Pitlckaj 



wear the hoodless frock suniiner and winter, putting on one or two sep 



arate hoods in winter. The under hood appears to be like one or two 



which I saw worn at Plover Hay, namely, a close-fitting nightcap of 



thin reindeer skin tied under the chin. The 



dress of the Siberian women consists of frock 



and baggy kneebreeches in one piece, sewed 



to tightntting boots reaching to the knees. 3 

 Mantles. &quot;Circular&quot; mantles of deerskin, 



fastened at the neck by a thong, and put on 



over the head like a poncho, are worn by the 



men in very cold weather over their other 



clothes when lounging in the open air about 



the village or watching at a seal holt; or tend 



ing the seal nets at night. The cloaks are 



especially affected by the older men, who, 



having grown-up sons or sons-in-law, do not 



have to go sealing in winter, and spend a 



great deal of their time in bright weather 



chatting together out of doors. There is 



one specimen in the collection, No. 5(5700 [94] (Fig. 05). It is made of 



fine summer doe-reindeer skin, in three pieces, back and two sides of 



dark skin, sewed to a collar of white skin from the belly of the animal. 



For pattern see diagram 

 (Fig. 00). The seams at a 

 are gored to make the cloak 

 hang properly from the 

 shoulder. The collar is in 

 two pieces, joined in the 

 middle, and the edge c is 

 turned over toward tliehair 

 side and &quot;run&quot; down in a 

 narrow hem. The points & 

 of the collar are brought 

 together in the middle and 

 joined by a little strap of 

 deerskin about an inch 

 long, so that the edge c 

 makes a round hole for the 

 neck. The width of the 

 mantle is (JO inches and its 

 depth 39. It is worn with 



the white flesh side out, as is indicated by the seams being sewed &quot;over 





1 Dull, Alaska, p. 379. 

 Voga, vol. 2, p. 



* V o&amp;lt;;a, vol. 2, p. 98. 



&quot;Nordenskiold, Vt ^a. vol. 2, p. 100 and Fi. on p. 57; Dull, Alaska, p. 379 and plate opposite. I also no 

 ticed this dress at Plover Hay in 1881. Compare also Krauso Urotliers. Geogr. Hliitter, vol. 5, No. 1, p. 5, 

 where the dress along the coast from Kast Cape to Plover Hay is described aa we saw it at Plover Kay, 



