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in either sex is rare. 1 do not remember ever seeing ;i bald woman, and 

 there were only two bald men at the two villages. Neither of these 

 men was very old. 



Head-band*. Some of the men and boys wear across the forehead a 

 string of large blue glass beads, sometimes sewed on a strip of deer 

 skin. Occasionally, also a fillet is worn made of the skin of the head 

 of a fox or a dog, with the nose coming in the middle of the forehead. 

 Such head-dresses are by no means common and seem to be highly 

 prized, as they were never offered for sale. MacFarlane (MS.) speaks 

 of a similar head-dress worn at the Anderson liiver, &quot; generally made 

 of the skin of the fore part of the head skins of wolves, wolverines, and 

 marmots. Very often, however, a string of beads is made iise of in 

 stead.&quot; Another style of head-dress is the badge of a whaleman, and 

 is worn only when whaling (and, I believe, at the ceremonies in the 

 spring preparatory to the whaling). This seems to be very highly 

 prized, and is, perhaps, &quot;looked upon with superstitious regard.&quot; 1 

 None were ever offered for sale and we had only two or three oppor 

 tunities of seeing it. It consists of a broad fillet of mountain-sheep 

 skin, with pendants of flint, jasper, or crystal, rudely flaked into the 

 shape of a whale (see under &quot;Amulets,&quot; where specimens are described 

 and figured), one in the middle of the brow and one over each ear. 

 Some of them are also fringed with the incisor teeth of the mountain 

 sheep attached by means of a small hole drilled through the end of the 

 root, as on the dancing cap (see under &quot; Games and Pastimes&quot;). The cap 

 tain and harpooner of a whaling crew which I saw starting out in the 

 spring of 1882 each wore one of these fillets. The harpooner s had 

 only the whale pendants, but the captain s was also fringed with teeth. 

 This ornament closely resembles the fillet fringed with deer s teeth, 

 observed by Capt. Parry at Iglulik, 2 which &quot; was understood to be 

 worn on the head by men, though we did not learn on what occasions.&quot; 



Earring* (nogolu). Nearly all the women and girls perforate the 

 lobes of the ears and wear earrings. The commonest pattern is a little 

 hook of ivory to which arc attached pendants, short strings of beads, 

 etc. Large, oblong, dark-blue beads and bugles are specially desired 

 for this purpose. Cheap brass or &quot;brummagem&quot; earrings are some 

 times worn nowadays. The fashion in earrings seems to have changed 

 somewhat since Dr. Simpson s time, as I do not remember ever having 

 seen the long strings of beads hanging across the breast or looped up 

 behind as he describes them/ 1 At present, one earring is much more 

 frequently worn than a pair. There; are in the collection two pairs of 

 the ivory hooks for earrings, which, though made for sale, are of the 

 ordinary pattern. Of these No. 80387 [1340] (Fig. 90) will serve as 

 the type. They are of coarse, white walrus ivory. 



1 Sec Dr. Simpson. op. cit., p. 243. Compare also Brodbeck, Nach Oaten (p. 23). Speaking of &quot; ein 

 Kopf- oder Stirnband,&quot; lie says: &quot;Vielleieht gilt es ilmen als eine Art voii /aiiberschiitzmittel. denu 

 68 iat uin kein (leld zu haben. Draugt man sie, so sagen me wohl, es sei nicht ihr eigen.&quot; 



* Second Voy., p. 498 and Fig. 7. ]1. opposite p. 548. 



H)p. cit., p. 241. 



