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foiiK's across the ball of rlii' 

 are frossed above the heel, lar 

 tied ill front. 



Such boots are mii\ .■rsally \ 

 ill Slimmer. The men's boots 

 usually left with an irrejiiilar < 

 at the top, and are lield n\> b,v 

 breeches, wliilethe women's usually 

 liave white bauds around the tops 

 Avith drawstriug.s. Half-boots of 

 the same material, re,acliin.<;' to mid 

 leg, without drawstrings, or shoes 

 reaching Just abo\-e the ankle with 

 a string round the top are some- 

 times worn over the deerskin boots. 

 Similar shoes of deerskin are some- 

 times worn in jdace of boots. 



Wateri)roof boots of black seal 

 skin are nniversally employed by 

 Eskimo and by the Aleuts. These 

 boots staiul water for a long time 

 without getting wet thron.uh. but 

 when they liecome wet they must 

 be turned inside out and drie.l very 

 slowly to ]uevent them from shrink 

 ing, and worked soft with a stone 

 skin-dressing tool or the teeth. Tl 

 sun. When the black cpid.Tinis 



Avaterproof, so tliat the w en are ; 



which are nuMided wilh water ti,-hl 



Intheearly spring, before it thaw 



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itives i)refer to dry them 



(xlges on the outside of th 

 sealskin sole, as rei>reseiite( 



^ on the watch tor white spots, 



laws enough to render waterproof boots 

 ■<sar>'. the surface of the snow becomes 

 smooth and slipjiery. To ena])le them- 

 's to walk on this .surface with.ait tall- 

 the natives uv.ikv a kind of -cn-eiier" 

 .f stril)s of sealskin. These are doubled 

 wise, and generally bent into a half- 

 I „i hoiseshoe shape, with the folded 



rve. sewed on the to<. and 1 1 of the 



Fio-. SL'. 



PAliTS (IK OISKSS. 



liilfs (tapsi ].—T\u' belt which is used to hold up the pantaloons or 

 breeches is simply a stout strip of skin tied rouuil the waist. Th<' gir- 

 dle, which is always worn outside of tin- frock, except when the weather 

 is warm or the wearer heated liy exercise, is very often a similai' strap 

 of deerskiu, or perhajis wolfskin. Often, however, and esi)ecially for 



