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finger. Plate xx, 7, illustrates an example of these gloves from King 
island. 
Another curious pair of gloves, from Norton sound, is shown in 
plate xx, 5. These are made with separate divisions for the thumb and 
the forefinger, the other fingers being provided with a single cover. 
They are made like other gloves used along the American coast in that 
they have the parts covering the fingers in separate pieces sewed on 
the piece forming the hand. 
The gloves illustrated in plate xx, 6, were obtained on the Diomede 
islands, Bering strait; they are made of tanned reindeer-skin, with the 
hair side inward. The front of the gloves is a dingy russet brown in 
color and the skin on the back is hard-tanned and colored chestnut 
brown. The back of the hand and the wrist have ornamental patterns 
in red, white, and blackish stitching, nade by sewing in white reindeer 
hairs and red woolen yarn with sinew thread. These are made in the 
style peculiar to these islands and the coast of Siberia already described, 
the pieces of skin sewed into the gores being pale buff in color. 
The glove shown in plate xx, 2, from Anderson river, British 
America, is similar in style to the gloves from the head of Norton 
sound. It is made of reindeer skin. The mittens used are of a com- 
mon pattern, with a triangular thumb. They are made of the skin of 
seals, reindeer, dogs, wolves, white bear, cormorant, murre, and salmon, 
and are sometimes of woven grass. 
For use while at sea long mittens reaching to the elbow or above are 
made of well-tanned sealskin and are provided at their upper border 
with a cord for drawing them tightly against the arm. These mittens 
are waterproof and protect the hands of the hunter from water during 
cold weather. 
Plate Xx1, 6, represents a typicai pair of these mittens measuring 
21 inches in Jength. They are well made, with a piece of tanned skin 
welted into the main seam. Near the upper border is a broad strip 
of sealskin, and a strip of the same extends down each side of the seam, 
running thence to the end of the thumb. Set about the lower border 
is a wide band of skin; near the upper edge and also along each side 
of the bands running to the thumb are tufts of white seal bristles with 
little tufts of young seal fur dyed a reddish brown. 
From Sledge island I obtained a similar pair of mittens made from 
waterproof tanned sealskin, and which reach ouly a little above the 
wrist. One of these is shown in plate xxq, 3. 
On lower Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers mittens made of salmon skin 
are also used. Along all of the coast region the skin of the hair seal, 
tanned with the hair on, is used for this purpose. All three of the latter 
kinds are used mainly during wet weather in summer or at sea. 
Mittens of woven grass are also made on the lower Yukon and thence 
to the Kuskokwim. For winter use they make clumsily shaped mit- 
tens from the skins of dogs, reindeer, wolves, and cormorants. 
