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strip, about two inches wide, of reindeer skin and has a narrow band 
extending up from this over the crown. About the lower border, on the 
sides and behind, extends a fringe consisting of narrow strips of rein- 
deer skin, 12 to 15 inches in length, which 
hangs down the back: 
Another variety of hood worn in this district 
is made of a band of deerskin, with the hair 
on, sewed to fit about the brow like a turban 
with the crown of skins of Parry’s marmot, or 
of white or blue foxes. When the marmot 
skins are used they are usually sewed in a 
series so as to hang behind like an open sack. 
If the fox skins are used they are sewed so 
that the head of the fox rests on the crown of 
the wearer with the body and tail hanging 
down over the back. These caps are very pic- : 
turesque and give the wearer a remarkably 
dignified appearance. 
In the region about Askinuk curious small 
fur caps or hoods are worn, fitting snugly about 
the head and fringed behind by a few little 
tags or strips of skin, but which do not hang 
far down the back like those last described. 
These hoods are made in ornamental patterns from various kinds of 
skin. , 
A hood of reindeer and marmot skin from Askinuk (figure 4) has 
a circular piece of reindeer skin 
set in the middle of the crown; 
this is surrounded by two strips 
of white reindeer skin taken 
from the leg of the animal with 
the hair clipped. Following 
this is a broader strip of similar 
reindeer skin, alternating with 
a square of dark-hair reindeer- 
skin on the top and marmot 
skins on each side, succeeded 
by another strip of reindeer skin 
and bordered about the face by 
a narrow fringe of mink fur. 
Similar caps were obtained at 
_ Fic. 4—Man’s hood of reindeer and marmot skin and Konigunugumut 
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Fia, 3—Fox-skin cap. 
In summer the Eskimo of 
Noatak and Kowak rivers wear bead-ornamented caps similar to those 
of the Tinné along the upper Yukon. On the shore of the Arctic at 
Point Hope the specimen represented in figure 5 was obtained. This 
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