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THE HUDSON BAY ESKIMO. 



pearance as, loaded with clothing of most miscellaneous character, they 

 waddle over the snow. The winter cap is similar to that worn by the 

 men, but is not so peaked. It is an object on which they expend a 

 great amount of labor. The material is usually a kind of cloth locally 

 known as Hudson bay cloth, either red, dark blue, light blue, or black. 

 The caps of the men and women are usually made from the better 

 grades of this cloth, while the dresses of the womeu and the leggings 

 of the men are of the inferior grades. 



If the cap is to be all one color, in which case it is always red, the 

 cloth is cut in two pieces only, and put together so as to produce a cup- 

 shape. Sometimes 

 live or six pieces are 

 cut from two or three 

 different colors of 

 cloth and the strips 

 sewed together. 

 Over the seams 

 white tape is sewed 

 to set off the colors. 

 In the center of the 

 strip is a rosette, 

 cross, or other de- 

 sign worked with 

 beads, and around 

 the rim rows of 

 beads variously ar- 

 ranged. 



The body is cov- 

 ered with a heavy 

 robe made of two 

 deerskins sewed to- 

 gether. This robe 

 is often plain, and 

 when ornamented 

 designs are painted 

 only on the bottom 

 of the skirt. These 

 robes are always of 

 skins with the hair 



FiQ. 99.— Man's winter coat, with lioort. The llesh side 



is often rubbed with red ocher while the extreme edge may be painted 

 with a narrow stripe of the same mixed with the viscid matter ob- 

 tained from the roe of a species of fish. The edge stripe of paint is 

 always of a darker brown than the other colors from the admixture of 

 that substance with the earth. 

 This garment is put upon the body in a manner impossible to describe 



