NELSON] BOOTS 41 
On the tundra south of the lower Yukon this general style of boot is 
made in a somewhat different fashion. The sewing is much more 
crudely done in that district than in the region to the northward. 
Plate xxi, 9, shows a pair of winter boots typical of the lower Kusko- 
kwim district; they are nade of deerskin tanned with the hair on and 
the hairy side turned in, but with a long, oval flap turned down in front 
from the top, thus having the hairy side outward on this portion. The 
outer flap is bordered by one or more narrow strips of white-hair deer- 
skin with little tags of worsted scattered along the lower edge, and is 
finished by a narrow strip of mink fur. 
The soles of the shoes worn in this district are of sealskin sewed on 
in the same manner as already described, but in a very crude fashion, 
owing to the unskilfulness of the needle women in this part of the 
country. 
On the lower Kuskokwim and southward to Tikchik lake the boots 
worn are more like those from the region north of the Yukon, except 
in the example shown in plate xx1, 8, from Tikehik, which have the 
front and rear of the legs ornamented with little tags of red worsted 
and white hair, and along the sides of the seams a series of little strips 
of reindeer-skin two or three inches in length. 
The top of the boot has two bands of white-hair reindeer-skin sewed 
around, each bordered above by a narrow strip of plucked beaver-skin. 
The lower of these white bands is bordered on its lower edge by strips 
of plucked beaver-skin, three or four inches in length, hung in pairs. 
These boots have two pairs of little leather ears—one on each side of the 
toes and the other on each side of the ankles. A long cord is passed 
across the top of the foot through the first of these, the ends of which 
are crossed over the foot and passed through the ears at the sides of 
the ankles, thence crossing behind and around forward and tied, as 
already described. 
On King island and the Diomedes in Bering strait some of these deer- 
skin boots are handsomely ornamented, as shown in the accompanying 
illustration (plate xxi, 7) of a typical pair from the first. named Jocality. 
They are made of white-hair reindeer-skin taken from the legs of the 
animal, and have a hard-tanned sealskin sole and a narrow strip of 
tanned sealskin of russet color between the sole and theuppers. The 
legs are handsomely ornamented with pattern work sewed on in colors— 
red, black, white, blue, and yellow being used. The white work is done 
mainly by sewing in long reindeer hairs. In addition colored threads 
are used for the red and blue. <A fine, yellow checked pattern work is 
produced by drawing narrow strips of yellow-tanned seal intestine 
through little slits cut along the strips of russet-colored tanned sealskin 
witich are set into the sides of the legs. Along these bands and on the 
borders of the pattern work are set little tufts of hair from the pup 
seal, dyed a deep chestnut red, alternating with little square tags of 
white-hair skin. As usual, around the top are several bands of white- 
