MURDOCH.] HAIR-DRESSING. 141 



tonsure que portent nos Tchiglit a pour but, m ont-ils clit, do permettre 

 au soleil de rechauffer leur cerveau et de trausmettre par ce inoyen 

 sa bieufaisante chaleur a leur c&amp;lt;Biir i&amp;gt;our les t aire vivre.&quot; Sonic of the 

 Nuuatafimiun and one man from Kilauwitaiwlfi that we saw wore their 

 front hair long, parted in the middle, and confined by a narrow fillet 

 of leather round the brow. The hair on the tonsure is not always 

 kept clipped very close, but sometimes allowed to grow as much as an 

 inch long, which probably led Hooper to believe that the tonsure was 

 not common at Point Barrow. 2 It is universal at the present day, as 

 it was in Dr. Simpson s time/ The western Kskimo generally crop 

 or shave the crown of the head, while those of the east allow their hair 

 to grow pretty long, sometimes clipping it on the forehead. The practice 

 of clipping the crown appears to be general in the Mackenzie district, 4 

 and was occasionally observed at Iglnlik by Capt. Parry (2d Voy., p. 403). 

 The natives of St. Lawrence Island and the Siberian coast carry this 

 custom to an extreme, clipping the whole crown, so as to leave only a 

 fringe round the head. 5 The women dress their 

 hair in the fashion common to all the Eskimo ex 

 cept the Greenlanders and the people about the 

 Mackenzie and Anderson Ilivers, where the women /\ 

 bring the hair up from behind into a sort of high [ 

 top-knot, with the addition in the latter district of tr- ;.,, 

 large bows or pigtails on the sides. 6 The hair is 

 parted in the middle from the forehead to the nape 

 of the neck, and gathered into a club on each side 

 behind the ear. The club is either simply braided 

 or without further dressing twisted and lengthened out with strips of 

 leather, and wound spirally for its whole length with a long string of 

 small beads of various colors, a large flat brass button being stuck into 

 the hair above each club. The wife of the captain of a whaling umiak 

 wears a strip of wolfskin in place of the string of beads when the boat 

 is &quot;in commission&quot; (as Capt. Ilerendeen observed). 



Some of the little girls wear their hair cut short behind. The hair is 

 not arranged every day. Both sexes are rather tidy about arranging 

 their hair, but there is much difference in this between individuals. 

 The marrow of the reindeer is sometimes used for pomatum. Baldness 



1 Petitot, Monographic, etc., p. xxxi. 



2 Tents, etc., p. 225. 



3 Op. cit., p. 238. 



4 Petitot, Monographic, et&amp;lt;-., p. xxxi. See also Franklin, 2il Exp., p. 11H. 



*See also Nordenskiiild, Vega, vol. 2, pp. 9 and 252, and figures passim, especially pp. H4 and 85; 

 Hooper, Tents, et., p. 27; and Dull, Alaska, p. 381. 



*See Kane, 2cl Grinncll Exp. Many illustrations, passim. Smith Sound; Egede, p. 132, and Grant?,, 

 vol. I,p.l28, Greenland ; Brodbeck, &quot;XachOsten,&quot; p. 23, and Holm, Geogr. Tids., vol.8, p. 90, East Green 

 land; Frobisher, in Haklu.vt, Voyages, etc. (1589), p. 627, Baffin Land; Parry, 2d Voy., p. 494, and 

 Lyon, Journal, p. 230, Iglulik; Petitot, Monographie. et., p. xxix, Mackenzie district; Hooper, Tents, 

 tc., pp.257, Icy Iteef, and 347, Maitland Id.; Frankliii, 2d Exp.. p. 119. Point Sabino; Ball, Alaska, 

 pp. 140 and 381, Norton Sound and Plover Hay. See also references U&amp;gt; Nordmiskio ld, given above, and 

 Krause Bros., Geographische Blatter, vol. 5, pt. 1, p. 5. 



