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CLOTHING. 



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hood. In some places, where large boots are in use, they are said to be 

 carried in these. The cap is separate and is always made of the head 

 of a fawn, the ears standing upright on each side of the head. The 

 jacket is either quite open in front or has a short slit. Children of 

 more than two years of age wear the same clothing, with trousers 

 and boots (Fig. 511). When they are about eight years old they are 

 clothed like men (Fig. 513). Girls frequently wear the same kind of 

 dress for some time, until they are from nine to ten years old, when 

 they assume the clothing of the women. 



As to the mode of clothing of the other tribes I give the descrij)- 

 tions of the authors. 

 Parry describes the dress of the Iglnlirmiut as follows (II, p. iur>): 



In the jacket of the women, the tail or flap behind is very broad, and so long as 

 almost to touch the gi-ound; while a shorter and narrower one before reaches half- 

 way down the thigh. The men have also a tail iii the hind part of their jackef, but 

 of smaller dimensions; bvit before, it is generally straight or ornamented by a single 

 scoUop. Tlie hood of the jacket * * * is much the largest in that of the 

 women, for the purpose of holding a child. The back of the jacket also bulges out in 

 the middle to give the child a footing, and a strap or girdle below this, and secured 

 roimd the waist by two large wooden buttons in front, prevents the infant from 

 falling through when, the hood being in use, it is necessary thus to deposit it. * * * 

 The upper (winter) garment of the females, besides being cut according to a regailar 



