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BOOTS. 



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tain-sheep skin and a dark brown deerskin, tagged with red worsted, witli 

 the edge which laps over the side piece cut into oblique tags. There are 

 no tiestrings, as the soles are turned up high enough to stay in place 

 without them. These boots were brought from the east by one of the 

 Nuwttk trading parties in 1882. Fig. 80, No. 5674!) f 110], is also a full- 

 dress boot, with soles like the last and no tiestrings. The leg is of two 

 pieces of dark brown deerskin with the hair clipped short. These 

 pieces are shaped like 2 in No. f&amp;gt;&amp;lt;&amp;gt;750, and the inner is larger, so that it 

 laps round the leg, bringing the seam on the outside. The leg is en 

 larged to fit the swell of the calf by a large triangular gusset from the 

 knee to the midleg, meeting the in 

 side piece in an oblique seam across 

 the calf. Instead of a hem, the 

 top of the leg has a half-inch band 

 sewed round it and a binding for 

 the drawstring above this. EJTging 

 is inserted in the front seam, and 

 obliquely across the outside of the 

 leg. That in the front seam is three 

 narrow strips of deerskin, dark in 

 the middle and light on each side. 

 The other is of mountain-sheep skin 

 in three strips, piped with fawnskin 

 and tagged with worsted. 



The boots belong with the 

 breeches, No. 56759. They fairly 

 represent the style of full-dress 

 boots worn with the loose-bottomed 

 breeches. They all have draw 

 strings just below the knee, and 

 often have no tie-strings at the 

 ankles. The eastern Eskimo are everywhere described as wearing the 

 boots tied at the top with a drawstring and the bottoms of the breeches 

 usually loose and hanging down on them. Tying down the breeches 

 over the tops of the boots, as is done at Point Harrow, is an improve 

 ment on the eastern fashion, as it closes the garments at the knee so as 

 to prevent the entrance of cold air. The same result is obtained in an 

 exactly opposite way by the people of Smith Sound, who, according to 

 Bessels (Naturalist, vol. 18, p. 805), tie the boots over the breeches. 



All fur garments, including boots, are sewed in the same way, usually 

 with reindeer sinew, by fitting the edges together and sewing them 

 &quot;over and over&quot; on the &quot;wrong&quot; side. The waterproof boots of black 

 sealskin, however, are sewed with an elaborate double seam, which is 

 quite waterproof, and is made as follows: The two pieces are put to 

 gether, flesh side to flesh side, so that the edge of one projects beyond 



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kin of mountain 



