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joining the edges d d d of the opposite, legs mid sewing the gusset (8) 

 into the space in front with its base joined to the edges e c of the two 

 legs. The sole of each shoe is a single piece of white tanned sealskin 

 with the grain side out, bent up about 

 1J inches all round the foot, rounded 

 at the toe and heel and broadest across 

 the ball of the foot. The toe and heel 

 are &quot;gathered &quot;into shape by crimping 

 the edge vertically. A space of about 

 3i inches is left uncriinped on each 

 side of the foot. (The process of crimp 

 ing these soles will be described under 

 the head of boots and shoes, where it 

 properly belongs). Around the top of 

 this sole is sewed a narrow band of 

 white sealskin, sewed over and over&quot; 

 on the edge of the uncriinped space, 

 but &quot;run&quot; through the gathers at the 

 ends, so as to draw them up. The 

 upper is in two pieces (heel, !), and 

 toe, 10). The heel piece is folded round 

 the heel, and the toe piece doubled 

 along the line/, and the curved edges 

 g g joined to the straight edges h h, 

 which makes the folded edge / , fit the 

 outline of the instep. The bottom is 

 then cut off accurately to fit the sole 

 and sewed to the edge of theband. The 

 trousers and shoes are sewed together 

 at the ankles. The whole is made of the 

 short-haired skin from the deer s legs. Pieces 2, 4, 7, 8, 0, and 10 are of 

 dark brown skin (10 put on so that the tuft of coarse hair on the deer s 

 ankle comes on the outside of the wearer s ankle), while, the remain 

 ing pieces are white, making a pleasing pattern of broad stripes. The, 

 inner edge of 5 is piped with dark brown fawnskin, and a round piece&quot; 

 of white skin is inserted at the bottom of 2. No. 50748 [130] is a 

 pair of pantaloons of nearly the same pattern (see diagram, Fig. T,M&amp;gt;) 

 and put together in a similar way. These pantaloons have soles of 

 sealskin with the hair left on and worn inside, and are made of deer 

 leg skin, wholly dark brown, except the gussets on the calf, which are 

 white. There is a piece of white skin let out, 2, as before, and the 

 ankle tuft is in the, same position. 



From the general fit of these, garments they appear to be all made on 

 essentially the same pattern, probably without greater variations than 

 those already described. When worn by the, women the material is 

 usually, if not always, the skin of reindeer legs, and most commonly of 



Flo. 72. Woman s pantaloons. 



