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when he was out of doors. His legs were covered with seal- 

 skin trousers, or " nanookies," reaching just below the knee, 

 where they were met by the tanned sealskin boots, called by 

 the natives " kamiks." We learned later that sealskin trousers 



were worn only by 

 those men who were 

 not fortunate enough 

 or able to kill a bear. 

 In winter these men 

 wear dogskin trousers, 

 which are as warm as 

 those made of bear- 

 skin, but not nearly so 

 stylish. Winter and 

 summer the men wear 

 stockings reaching to 

 the knee, made of the 

 fur of the Arctic hare. 

 At first I thought 

 the woman's dress was 

 identical with that of 

 the man, and it puz- 

 zled me to tell one from 

 the other ; but in a 

 day or two I had made out the many little differences in the 

 costumes. The woman, like the man, wore the ahtee and 

 netcheh made respectively of the birdskins and sealskin. 





Man 



