NELSON] CEREMONIAL FILLETS 417 
On the lower Yukon and thence to Kuskokwim river, the men during 
certain dances wear broad fillets made of wolfskin or of skin from the 
neck of the reindeer, with the long hair upstanding. The wolfskin 
fillets are made from narrow strips of skin taken from the animal’s 
shoulders or neck, where the fur is longest. These 
strips are sewed to the edges of a band of tanned 
sealskin, forming an upstanding ring of fur extend. 
ing from the edges both upward and downward. 
On the surface of the intermediate strip of seal- 
skin, which is from two to three inches broad, are 
sewed narrow, parallel strips of white, parchment- 
like, tanned sealskin, or reindeer-skin with the 
hair clipped so as to give it a velvety surface. 
Another fillet (figure 146) from the same region 
is made from 
a strip of 
white, parch- 
ment-like, 
tanned seal- 
skin about 
two inches in 
breadth, hay- Fic. 145—Loonskin fillet 
in g sewe d worn in dances. 
along its sur- 
face two narrow strips of black, 
tanned sealskin half an inch apart, 
with two parallel cords sewed to 
the skin at equal distances between 
these black bands. The upper bor- 
der of this fillet has sewed on, in 
addition, a narrow strip of skin from 
the neck of the reindeer, with up- 
standing hair eight inches in length. 
The wolfskin fillet is worn so that 
one of the bordering lines of wolf hair extends down, concealing the 
upper half of the face, while the other line of fur stands up about the 
crown. In the fillet last described the outer standing hairs form a 
tall, crest-like circle about the crown. 
18 ETH——27 
Fic, 146—Reindeer-skin fillet (4). 
