122 TITK POINT I'.AEKOW E.SKIMO. 



;iii(i overtoil tlic liair side. All tlie mantles seen were essentially of 

 tlic saiiic iiattciii. Tlie edge is sometimes cut into an ornamental 

 I'liimc, anil tlif llish side marked with a lew narrow strijjes of red oe.lier. 

 Tliis-aiiiiciit ;i|,|n-ai stn lie peculiar to iKiitliwesteniAiiiciica. So men- 

 tion is to be found of any sucli a tliin.u excei)t in Mi: iMacFarlane's 

 :MS. notes, where lie speaks of a ih^eiskin blanket "attaelied with aline 

 aeross the shoulileis in eohl weather," among the Andersiin IMver Es- 

 kimo. We have no means at iiresent of knowing whether such eloaks 

 are worn liy the coast natives between I*oint Barrow and Kittzebue 

 Sound, but one was worn by one of the Nunata'fiuiinii who were at 

 Nnwfdv in tlie autumn of ISSI. 



h'„ii,-fn>cl:s.—Thi' raindrock (sihVna) is made of stvijis of seal or wal- 

 rus intestines abimt;! ini'hes broad, sewed together ed.-e to edge. This 

 material is light yellowish brown, translucent, very light, and quite 

 wateriiroof. In shape the frock resembles a man's frock, but the hood 

 comes well forwaid and Hts closely round the face. It is generally plain, 

 but the seams are nowadays sewed with black or colored cotton for orna- 

 ment. The garment is of the same shape for both sexes, but the women 

 freipiently covei- the llesli side of a deerskin frock with stri|is of entrail 

 sewed together vertically, thus making a garment at once waterproof 

 and warm, which is worn alone in summer with the hair side m. These 

 out shirts are worn over the clothes in summer when it rains or when 

 Hie wearer is working in the boats. There are no specimens in the col- 

 lection. 



The kaiak jacket of black sealskin, so universal in (ireenland, is un- 

 known at Point Harrow. The waterproof gut frocks are ].eculiar to the 

 wcstein Eskimo, though shirts of seal gut, worn between the inner aiid 

 outer frock, are mentioned by I'^gcde (]>. KiO) and Orantz' as used in 

 ('.reenlaiidin thi'ir time. Kllis also' says: " Some few of them [i. e., the 

 Eskimo of Hiidsons Strait] wear shifts of seals' bladders, sewed to- 

 gether in pretty near the same form with those in Fairojie." They have 

 been described generally Tinder the name hniilciJ.K (said to be a Siberian 

 word) by all the authors who have treated of the natives of this region, 

 Eskimo, Siberians, or Aleuts. We saw them worn by nearly all the 

 natives at Plover I'.ay. One handsome one was obseived trimmed on 

 the seams with rows' of little red noduh^s (i.ieci's of the beak nf one of 

 the piilliiis) and tiny tufts of black feathers. 



The cotton frock, already alluded to as worn to kee]* the driving snow 

 out of the furs, is a long, loose shirt reaching to abcmt midleg, with a 

 nmnd hole at the neck large enough to adnut the head. This is gener- 

 ally of bright-colored calico, but shirts of white cotton are sometimes 

 worn when hunting on the ice or snow. Similar frocks are worn by the 

 natives at Pitlekaj.^ 



1 Vor 1. p. 137. 



' Vnyagi- lr> nnilsims Bay, p. 136. 



'NordeDskiiiUl, Vi-ga, vol. 2. p. 98. 



