120 THE rcHXT P.ARRdW ESKIMO. 



woMicii iKiwailays oftrn liiic' tin- iiiitcr fiock with (Irilliny. liri.uht calico, 

 or fvcii hcdtickin.i;'. and tlicu wear it witli tliis side (int. 



Tbe frock.s for botii sc\cs, while made on the same .i;fneral pattevn 

 as those of the other Eskimo, ditfer in many details from tliose of east 

 ern America. For instance, tlu' liond is not fitted in round the throat 

 with the pointed throat pieces or fringed with wolf or wolverine skin 

 until we reach the Eskimo of the Anderson River. Here, as shown by 

 the specimens in the National :\lnsenm, the throat pieces are small and 



wide apart, and the men's h Is only are fringed with wolverine skin. 



The women's hoods are very larj;'e everywhere in the east for the better 

 accommodation of the child, which is sometimes carried wholly in the 

 hood.' 



The hind flap of the skirt of the woman's frock, except in (ireenland, 

 has developiMl into a lonj,' narrow train reaching the ground, while the 

 front flap is very mnrh decreased in size (see references just quoted). 

 The modern frock in (Ireenland is very short and has very small flaps 

 (see illustrations in Kink's Talcs, etc., pp. 8 and 9), but the ancient 

 fashion, judging from the plate in drantz's History of^ Greenland, re- 

 ferred to above, was much more like that worn by the western Eskimo. 

 In the Anderson and :\Iackeii/,ie regions the flaps are short and rounded 

 and the front flap considerably tlie smaller. There is less difference iu 

 the general shape of the men's frocks. The hood is generally rounded 

 and close fitting, except iu Labradoi- aiul BafBn Land, where it is 

 pointed oir the crown. The skirt is sometimes prolonged into rounded 

 flaps and a short scallop in front, as at Iglulik and some parts of Baffin 

 Laud.' Petitot ' gives a full description of the dress of a "chief" from 

 the Ander-son River. He calls the frock a ••blouse ^chancree par c6t6 et 

 termin^e en queues arrondies jiar de\ant et par derri6re." Thestyleof 

 frock worn at Point Barrow is the iirevalcnt oiu' along the western coast 

 of America nearly to the Kuskokwim. On this rivc-r long hoodless 

 fi'ocks reaching nearly or quite to the giound are worn.^ The frock 

 worn in Kadiak was hooilless and long, with short sleeves and large 

 arndu.les lieneath these.^ 



The men of the Siberian Eskimo and sedentary f'hukches, as at 

 Plover Bay, wear in summer a. loose straight-bottomed frock without a 

 hood, but with a frill of long fur round the neck. The winter frock is 

 described as lia\"ing "a square hood without trimmings, but capable of 

 being drawn, like the mouth of a bag, around the face by a string in. 



son rivers (folii-.'U-cl li,\ ,\hi.l' :ii l:iini. J h.- I U 11. .in il.i- I.I.-.1 I .-...ii, M lul.- .-uU i.iii. h kirgur ami 



wilier than those in tnsliion nt i'.nnt B.arrow. ;iri^ nut so enonuuua as the more eastern ones. Tlic little 

 peak on tlio top of tlic woman's hood at Point Harrow may bo a rominisoenco of tbe pointed hood worn 

 by Oie women mentioned by ISessels, op. cit. 



' Parry, 2d Voy., p. 494. .and 1st Voy., p. 283. 



2 Monographic, etc.. p. xiv. 



* Petroff. op. cit, p. 134, Pis. 4 and .'). Seo .also specimens in the National Museum. 



' Pctrotr, op. cit., p. 139, and Liscanslsy, Voy., etc., p. l',)4. 



