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the hood, ear-flaps are commonly used. These are made of oval flaps 
of deerskin with the hair side inward and having the base truncated 
and sewed to a narrow band of skin to go around the head. The flaps 
are then tied under the chin by means of strings. The tanned outer 
surface of these flaps has various ornamental patterns in white hairs 
from reindeer sewed on with sinew thread, the designs produced being 
parallel lines, either straight, curved, or in circles. Figure 6 represents 
a pair of these ear-flaps. 
GLOVES AND MITTENS 
From the Yukon northward to Kotzebue sound and thence to Point 
Barrow, mittens and gloves are found in common use. The gloves are 
made usually with places for each finger and the thumb. From the 
Yukon mouth to Point Barrow were obtained gloves having each of 
the fingers made of a separate piece sewed upon the hand, the thumb 
in both cases being sewed on in the same manner and having ap 
awkward, triangular shape. 
A pair from Sledge island (number 45085) are made of sealskin with 
the hair removed and the wrists bordered with a fringe of white-bear fur. 
A pair from Point Hope (plate xx, 1), of the usual pattern described, 
is of tanned reindeer skin with the hair side inward. The wrists are 
bordered with a fringe of little strips of tanned reindeer-skin, dyed 
reddish brown, and on the back are numerous little pendent strings of 
red-and-white and red-and-blue beads, with other beads strung on the 
fringe bordering the wrist. These gloves are joined by a double string 
of little copper cylinders, spaced by blue beads, reaching up to the 
central loop of soft, tanned skin, for going completely around the neck, 
thus holding the gloves without danger of their being lost if suddenly 
taken off. 
Plate xx, 3, shows a pair of deerskin gloves of the common pattern 
from Kotzebue sound. The skin is tanned with the hair left on and 
turned in on the inside of the hand and all around on the fingers, The 
back of the hand and the thumb are covered with a piece of white- 
hair deerskin, on which hang four tassel-like strips of wolverine skin. 
The wrists are bordered with a series of narrow bands of reindeer skin, 
with the white hair clipped short, and between the strips a narrow 
band of parchment-like skin is welted in. Midway in this series of 
strips a seam is bordered by a series of small, regularly spaced tufts 
of red worsted. A narrow band of wolverine fur completes this orna- 
mental border. 
Other gloves from Bering strait are made of skin tanned with the 
hair left on and turned inward; others have the hair entirely removed. 
A peculiar pattern of glove is common to the Diomede islands and the 
adjacent shore of Siberia. The fingers and the hand are of one piece, 
with three pieces of skin of a different color set in gores along the 
back and divided to extend down as a gore along the inside of each 
