Le, THE POINT BARROW ESKIMO. 
woman’s frock. On her legs a woman wears a pair of tight-fitting 
deerskin pantaloons with the hair next the skin, and outside of these a 
similar pair made of the skins of deer legs, with the hair out, and having 
soles of sealskin, but no anklestrings. The outer pantaloons are usually 
laid aside in spring, and waterproof boots like the men’s, but fastened 
below the knee with drawstrings, are worn over the under pantaloons. 
In the summer pantaloons wholly of waterproof sealskin are often put 
on. The women’s pantaloons, like the men’s breeches, are fastened with 
a girdle just above the hips. It appears that they do not stay up very 
well, as the women are continually “ hitching” them up and tightening 
their girdles. 
Until they reach manhood the boys wear pantaloons like the women, 
but their jackets are cut just like those of the men. The dress of the 
girls is a complete miniature of that of the women, even to the pocket 
for the child’s head. Those who are well-to-do generally own several 
complete suits of clothes, and present a neat appearance when not en- 
gaged in dirty work. The poorer ones wear one suit on all occasions 
till it becomes shabby. New clothes are seldom put on till winter. 
The outer frock is not often worn in the iglu, being usually taken off 
before entering the room, and the under one is generally dispensed with. 
Men habitually leave off their boots in the house, and rarely their 
stockings and breeches, retaining only a pair of thin deerskin drawers. 
This custom of stripping in the house has been noticed among all Es- 
kimos whose habits have been deseribed, from Greenland to Siberia. 
The natives are slow to adopt any modifications in the style of dress, 
the excellence and convenience of which has been so frequently com- 
mented upon that it is unnecessary to refer to it. One or two youths 
learned from association with us the convenience of pockets, and accord- 
ingly had “ patch pockets” of cloth sewed on the outside of the skirt of 
the inner frock, and one young man in 1883 wore a pair of sealskin 
hip boots, evidently copies from our india-rubber wading boots. I now 
proceed to the description of the clothing in detail. 
Head clothing.—The only head covering usually worn is the hood of 
the frock, which reaches to about the middle of the head, the front 
being covered by the hair. Women who are carrying children in the 
jacket sometimes wrap the head in a cloth. (I have an indistinet rec- 
ollection of once seeing a woman with a deerskin hood, but was too 
busy at the time to make a note or sketch of it.) One man at Utki- 
aywin (Niigawau/ra, now deceased), who was quite bald on the forehead, 
used to protect the front of his head with a sort of false front of deer- 
skin, tied round like a fillet. No specimens of any of these articles 
were obtained. Fancy conical caps are worn in the dances and theat- 
rical performances, but these belong more properly under the head of 
Games and Pastimes (where they will be described) than under that of 
Clothing. 
