32 THE ESKIMO ABOUT BERING STRAIT (ETH. ANN. 18 
the hair outward when it is warmer. Of late years these people during 
the summer wear shirts and trousers of calico and drilling obtained 
from the fur traders. Ordinary cotton shirts also are worn by them. 
Reaching the lower Kuskokwim and adjacent country to the north, 
the men wear frocks similar to those hitherto described, but so long 
that when at full length they reach the ground about the wearer’s feet. 
When traveling these frocks are drawn up and belted about the waist 
until the lower border reaches 
only to the knee. They are 
made usually from the skins of 
Parry’s marmot or a species of 
whistler found inthe mountains 
south of the lower Kuskokwim 
district, and are ornamented 
with the tails of the animals, 
which are set on, fringe-like, 
with each skin hanging all 
about the person. They are 
made generally without hoods 
and the neck is bordered by the 
skin of the Arctic hare or white 
fox,or more commonly by a roll- 
like edge of deerskin with the 
hair on. A gore is set in on 
each side of the neck over the 
‘chest, or sometimes a single 
broader gore extends down the 
middle in front. The sleeves 
may be bordered by the white- 
hair skin of the reindeevr’s belly, 
and bands of the same are some- 
times set in around the body 
or near the lower border. In 
place of hoods the wearers of 
these frocks have fur caps with 
ear-laps for tying under the 
chin. Their trousers are sim- 
ilar to those already described. 
On the tundra between the 
Kuskokwim and the lower Yukon there are worn similar, but shorter, 
hoodless frocks. In place of the fur caps described as worn by the 
Kuskokwim people these tundra men wear curious headdresses made 
of various skins. 
One of these (figure 2), from Konigunugumut, is a hood made of the 
skins of Parry’s marmot with a border about the face of reindeer skin 
with the hair on. The hood is bordered also along its lower edge by a 
Fic. 2—Man’s hood from Konigunugumut (5). 
