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is also made of the same kind of seal, unless they are fortunate enough 

 to procure Calloceplialus vitulmus, which skins are so highly prized that 

 they use them even though there is only sufficient for a part of the fronts 

 of their jackets. 



Both the men and women wear a garment the exact duplicate in shape 

 under the outer one ; this garment is made either from the young seal 



in the white coat or of reindeer. 



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The coat of the men does not open in front, but is drawn on over the 

 head like a shirt, and has a hood that fits the head snugly, while the 

 woman's hood is large and loose, and the jacket is quite loose-fitting, so 

 as to receive the child, which is always carried in the hood. The woman's 

 jacket further differs from the men's in being shorter in front, and end- 

 ing in a rounded point, while behind it reaches quite to the ground in 

 the form of a lance-shaped train. This appendage is caught up in the 

 same manner as the fashionable train of the present day among civil- 

 ized nations, when the condition of the ground is unfavorable for its 

 trailing. After all, is not this fashion borrowed from the Eskimo? 

 There is often an approach towards this prolongation in the men's jack- 

 ets, especially when made of deer skin, but never so long as on the 

 woman's. Xeither do little girls have a long train to the jacket $ but as 

 soon as they arrive at the age when they are no longer looked upon as 

 children, they learn to imitate their mothers. There are never any pock- 

 ets in the jackets of either sex, the hood serving for this purpose. 



The pants of the men are made from the same material as the coat, 

 with the exception that the young seal in the white coat is often used for 

 the outer as well as the inner garment. The pants reach only to the 

 upper part of the pelvis, and are kept up by means of a string around 

 the body. They reach a little below the knee, where they are met by 

 the boots. When made of deer skin, thej* are usually ornamented by 

 fringes of cut skin around the lower edges. 



The women's pants differ from the men's in being composed of two 

 separate pieces, the lower reaching from a little below the knee to the 

 middle of the thigh, and are kept in place by a string which runs to 

 the upper edge of the other portion. The lower portion of these panta- 

 loons is removed while they are at work in their igloos, and the bare 

 thigh used, as a board would be, to lay the seal skin on while cleaning 

 the blubber from it. The women have the habit of thrusting their hands 

 between the upper and lower pantaloons the same as we do in a pocket; 

 in fact, they use this space as a sort of pocket. 



Little girls wear their breeches like the men till they get to be ten or 



