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round, with projecting cheek-bones and prominent processes 

 at the upper end of the jaw. They are usually very fat. The 

 jaws, or at least the lips, are very apt to be rather protu- 

 berant. The eyes are narrow. The forehead, usually cov- 

 ered over with hair, is of medium height. The hair is 

 straight and jet black, except in the case of the old men, and 

 is worn long^ cut ofif straight below the ears and just above 

 the eyes; though some of the younger men wear it close-cut. 

 The beards are very thin, and often entirely wanting. When 

 there is little fat in the face the prominent bones, and the deep 

 wrinkles in old people, make it of very irregular outline. 

 The eyes and the complexion are always dark, but the latter 

 varies from the color of a moderate sunburn to a much deeper 

 brown. Where the skin is not exposed, however, it is ap- 

 parently as white or rosy as that of a white man. 



The women closely resemble the men in their features. 

 Their black hair is done up in a coil on the head. Most of 

 them now wear skirts, especially when strangers are about, 

 though some of them still cling to deerskin trousers. One 

 feature of their original dress that they still retain, and that 

 serves by its different form to distinquish the men from the 

 women, is the jacket or attigi. It is a loose garment, fur- 

 nished with a hood for both sexes. It is cut square across 

 at the bottom for the men, but for the women ends below in 

 a curve or tail both in front and behind, the rear appendage 

 being much the longer. The hood is often bordered with 

 fur, and in the tase of the women bears more or less elaborate 

 ornamentation. These garments were doubtless made orig- 

 inally entirely of fur, but this has now been supplanted, in 

 summer at least, by a white, thick, flannel-like cloth supplied 

 by the missionaries. The hood of the women serves not only 



