NELSON] FACE PROTECTORS—FROCKS 35 
Around the back of the neck is a border of black-bear skin with the 
long hair erect. The lower border of the garment is edged with a nar- 
row strip of white-reindeer skin, succeeded by a border of red-bear skin 
with tufts of white-bear fur sewed on all around at short intervals. 
The people on the islands of Bering strait and the adjacent shores 
use a kind of face protector made of a ring of white-bear skin, which is 
drawn on over the head and fitted round the face. These are held in 
place by a narrow band of the same material extending over the top of 
the head; another strip from each side joins the other at the back. 
During summer the men usually wear a light frock made from the 
skins of the marmot, mink, muskrat, fawns of reindeer, or the summer 
reindeer with its light coat of hair. In winter two of these garments 
are frequently worn, and those of the winter deerskin with its heavier 
coat of hair are used in severe weather. 
A man’s frock from Cape Vancouver (plate Xv11) is made of reindeer- 
fawn skin and has a hood which forms a part of the garment instead of 
being worn separately as is done farther inland. From the shoulders 
hanging down both in front and behind depend broad strips of reindeer 
skin with the fur cut short and having attached to their tips strings of 
white, red, and blue beads from five to six inches in length with narrow 
strips of wolverine fur. From the middle of the hood behind hangs a 
strip of reindeer skin, tipped with wolverine fur. Little tassels of red- 
bear skin are attached to strips of white-deer skin, set in, gore-like, 
over the tops of shoulders. Two sharp-pointed gores of white-deer 
skin are set in above the waist. 
The hood has an inner border of arctic-hare skin followed by a strip 
of wolf skin. The lower end of the sleeves is bordered by a band of 
white-deer skin, edged by a narrow border of mink fur, the lower edge 
of the garment being bordered in the same manner. This is one of 
the most ornamental garments of the kind seen in that district. 
The frocks worn by the women of this region are made similar to 
those of the men except that they are cut up alittle farther on the sides 
so as to make a more conspicuously pendent flap before and behind. 
From the Yukon mouth northward the women’s frocks are much 
more handsomely made, the mottled white skin of the tame reindeer, 
obtained from the Siberian people, affording a good material for the 
production of ornamental patterns. Some of these garments are very 
richly ornamented; they are deeply cut up along each side, so that 
before and behind the skirt hangs in a long, broad, round flap. The 
hoods are bordered by wolverine and wolf skin, and the ends of the 
sleeves and the lower edge of the garment are trimmed with wolf or 
wolverine skin, usually the latter. A typical garment of this kind 
(number 64272), from Cape Prince of Wales, has the hood made of a 
central oval piece extending up from the back of the garment as a 
narrow strip which broadens above. The hood is bordered on each 
side by short-hair white-reindeer skin which extends to the shoulders 
and then divides and forms a long, narrow gore down the front and 
