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the hood, ear-tlaps are commonly used. These are made of oval flaps 

 of deerskin with the hair side inward and having- the base truncated 

 and sewed to a narrow band of skin to go around the head. The flaps 

 are then tied under the chin by means of strings. The tanned outer 

 surface of these flaps has various ornamental patterns in white hairs 

 from reindeer sewed on with sinew thread, the designs i)roduced being 

 parallel lines, either straight, curved, or in circles. Figure G re})resents 

 a pair of these ear flaps. 



GLOVES AND MITTENS 



From the Yukon northward to Kotzebue sound and thence to Point 

 Barrow, mittens and gloves are found in common use. The gloves are 

 made usually with j^laces for each flnger and the thumb. From the 

 Yukon mouth to Point Barrow were obtained gloves having each of 

 the fingers nuide of a separate piece sewed upon the hand, the thumb 

 in both cases being sewed on in the same manner and having an 

 awkward, triangular shape. 



A pair from Sledge island (number 45085) are made of sealskin with 

 the hair removed and the wrists bordered with a fringe of white-bear fur. 

 A pair from Point Hope (plate xx, 1), of the usual pattern described, 

 is of tanned reindeer skin with the hair side inward. The wrists are 

 bordered with a fringe of little strips of tanned reindeer-skin, dyed 

 reddish brown, and on the back are numerous little pendent strings of 

 red-andwhite and red-and-blue beads, with other beads strung on the 

 fringe bordering the wrist. These gloves are joined by a double string 

 of little copper cylinders, spaced by blue beads, reaching up to the 

 central loop of soft, tanned skin, for going completely around the neck, 

 thus holding the gloves without danger of their being lost if suddenly 

 taken off. 



Plate XX, 3, shows a pair of deerskin gloves of the common pattern 

 from Kotzebue sound. The skin is tanned with the hair left on and 

 turned in on the inside of the hand and all around on the fingers. The 

 back of the hand and the thumb are covered with a piece of white- 

 hair deerskin, on which hang four tassel-like strips of wolverine skin. 

 The wrists are bordered with a series of narrow bands of reindeer skin, 

 with the white hair clipped short, and between the strips a naiiow 

 band of parchment-like skin is welted in. Midway in this series of 

 strips a seam is bordered by a series of small, regularly spaced tufts 

 of red worsted. A narrow band of wolverine fur completes this orna- 

 mental border. 



Other gloves from Bering strait are made of skin tanned with the 

 hair left on and turned inward; others have the hair entirely removed. 



A peculiar pattern of glove is common to the Diomede islands and the 

 adjacent shore of Siberia. The fingers and the hand are of one piece, 

 with three pieces of skin of a different color set in gores along the 

 back and divided to extend down as a gore along the inside of each 



