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THE ESKIMO ABOUT BERING STRAIT 



[ETH. ANN. 18 



the bair outward when it is warmer. Of late years these people during- 

 the summer wear shirts and trousers of calico and drilling- obtained 

 from the fur traders. Ordinary cotton shirts also are worn by them. 



Reaching- the lower Kuskokwim and adjacent country to the north, 

 the men wear frocks similar to those hitherto described, but so long 

 that when at full length they reach the ground about the wearer's feet. 

 When traveling these Irocks are drawn up and belted about the waist 



until the lower border reaches 

 only to the knee. They are 

 made usually from the skins of 

 Parry's marmot or a species of 

 whistler found in the mountains 

 south of the lower Kuskokwiui 

 district, and are ornamented 

 with the tails of the animals, 

 ■which are set on, fringe-like, 

 with each skin hanging all 

 about the person. They are 

 made generally without hoods 

 and the neck is bordered by the 

 skin of the Arctic hare or white 

 fox, or more commonly by a roll- 

 like edge of deerskin with the 

 hair on. A gore is set in on 

 each side of the neck over the 

 chest, or sometimes a single 

 broader gore extends down the 

 middle in front. The sleeves 

 may be bordered by the white- 

 hair skin of the reindeer's belly, 

 and bands of the same are some- 

 times set iu around the body 

 or near the lower border. In 

 place of hoods the ^vearers of 

 these frocks have fur caps with 

 ear-laps for tying under the 

 chin. Their trousers are sim- 

 ilar to those already described. 

 On tlie tundra betveen the 

 Kuskokwim and the lower Yukon there are worn similar, but shorter, 

 hoodless frocks. In place of the fur caps described as worn by the 

 Kuskokwim people these tundra men wear curious headdresses made 

 of various skins. 



One of these (figure 2), from Koniguuugumut, is a hood made of the 

 skins of Parry's marmot with a border about the face of reindeer skin 

 with the hair on. The hood is bordered also along its lower edge by a 



Fio. 2— Man's hood froiu Koiiigiuuigmiiut (j^g). 



