MCEDOCH.] CLOTHING. ]{)<) 



bleof the aiifiont Alont and the clahoratc laiii]) .if (lie INiim I'.aiiciw 

 Eskimo art! evidi'iitly tlit^ two cxticincs ol' ihi' sciics <i|' fninis Ih'iI i|ii. 

 iutermediate ]>attciiis arc slill to he dcsciihcd. 



Fig.50,N()..-.(i4;iL'|l(IS], isuiM'.-uliaiaiticl ' wliiclumly one spcn:,,,.,, 



was collected. AVc wtac iiixcn to miilcistand at llic time oliiiiirlia>iii" 

 it that it was a sort ot so<'ket or csciitclK-oii to 1... rusimcd to the wall 

 above a lauqi to hold the hliililicr stick dcsciihcil al.,i\c. No sndi 

 escutchectus, however, were seen in use in llic lioiiscs visited. 'I'hc 

 article is evidently old. It is a Hat jiicce of tliiel; |ilaid; of some soft 

 wood, ll-4inciics Ion--. 4-1.' broad, and aliont 1.', thick, very indcK cai\c.l 

 into a human head and Ixidy without arms, witli a larue roiind iioh" 

 about IJ inches m diameter throii^li the ULiddlc of the breast. Tlie eyes 

 and mouth are incised, and the nose was in relief, but was Ion- a^o split 

 ofl'. There is a deep furrow all around the head, perhaps for fasleiduf;- 

 on a hood. 



CLOTHING. 



The clnthins' of these people is as a rule made entirely of skins, thou^li 

 of late years drillin.u' and calico are used for some jiarts of the dress 

 which will be aflerwaids dcsciilicd. Pctrotf makes the rather sur- 

 prisin.ustatenuMit that '-a lar.^c amount of ready-made clothin.i^limls its 

 way into the hands of these |,eo|,lc, who wear it in summer, lint the ex- 

 cessivecold of winter compels them to resume the fur .i;armeiils lormerly 

 in general use auKUi.i; them." h'ur .i;armeiits are in as L;ciHMal use at 

 Point r.arrow as ( hey eyer were, and the castotf clothin,u obtained from 



the shi|)s is mostly packed away in soi ■orner of the i.'ilii. \\'e landed 



at Cape Smyth not Ion,- after the wreck ot the Ihinlrl irc/M/cc, whose 



crew had aband ■(! and -iyen away a -real deal of thcii' clothin.n-. 



Duriuii' that autumn a -ood many men and bo\ s wore white men's coats 

 (H' shirts in place of the ,.uter frock, especially when workiii- or loun-- 

 in- about the station, but by the next sprin- these were all j.aeked 

 away and were not resumed a-ain exeei>t in rare instances in tlu' sum 

 nier. 



The chief material is the skin ol' the reindeer, wlii.di is used in yarioiis 

 stages of i.cla-e. l''iue, short-haired summer skins, especially tiiose of 

 does and fawns, aic used l\>v making dress garments and underclothes. 

 The heaviei' skins aic Mse<l for cyeryday working clothes, while the 

 heaviest winter skins fuinish extra warm jackets for .'(dd weather, 

 warm winter stockings and milteiis. The white or spotted skins of the 

 tame Siberian iciudecr, obtained from the "XunataiTmiun," are <'spe- 

 cially valued tbr full di ess ja.kcts. We heard no menti<m of the use of 

 the skin of the unborn reindeer fawn, but there is a kind of dark deer- 

 skin u.sed oidy for edgings, which api)ears to be that of an cxi-cednigly 

 young deer. This skin is extremely thin, ami the hair so short that it 

 is aluujst invisible. Siberian deerskins can always be recognized by 



