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Gloves. Gloves of tliin deerskin, worn with the hair in, and often 

 elegantly ornamented, are used with full dress, especially at the dances. 

 As already stated, the men wear such gloves under the pualu when 

 shooting in the winter. When ready to shoot, the hunter slips off the 

 mitten and holds it between his legs, while the glove enables him to 

 cock the rifle and draw the trigger without touching the cold metal with 

 his bare hands. There are two pairs of gloves in the collection. No. 

 SIISL il [974] (Fig. OS) illustrates a very common style called a drigudrTn. 

 They are made of thin reindeer skin, with the white flesh side out, and 





Fid. 68. Deerskin glove: 



are rights and lefts. The short and rather clumsy fingers and thumbs 

 are separate pieces from the palm, which is one straight, broad piece, 

 doubled so as to bring the seam on the same side as the thumb. The 

 thumbs are not alike on both hands. The outside piece of the thumb 

 runs down to the wrist on the left glove, but is shorter on the right, 

 the lower &quot;2 inches of the edge seam being between the edges of the 

 palm piece. Kach finger is a single piece doubled lengthwise and 

 sewed over the tip and down one side. The wrists are ornamented with 

 an edging of two narrow strips of clipped mountain sheep skin, bordered 

 with a narrow strip of wolverine fur with the reddened flesh side out. 

 These gloves were made for sale and are not well mated, one being 8 

 inches, with fingers (all of the same length) 4J inches long, while the 

 other is S inches long with ringers of 3 inches. No. 5(i747 [1-&amp;lt;S] is a 

 pair of gloves made in the same way but more elaborately ornamented. 

 There is a band of deerskin but no fringe round the wrist. The back 

 of the hand is covered with brown deerskin, hair out, into which is in 

 serted the square ornamental pattern in which the light stripes are 

 white deerskin and the dark pipings the usual almost hairless fawn- 

 skin. Gloves like this type are the most common and almost univer 

 sally have a fringe round the wrist. They are also usually a little 

 longer-wristed than the mittens. 



