116 THE POINT BARROW ESKIMO. 
Trimmings of edging like that above described, or of plain wolverine 
fur round the skirts and wrists, are common, and the shoulder straps 
rather less so. Frocks are sometimes also fringed on the skirts and 
seams with little strips of deerskin, after what the Point Barrow people 
called the “ Kinmiadln” fashion.' Nearly all the natives wear outer 
frocks of deerskin, but on great occasions elaborately made garments 
of other materials are sometimes seen. Nos. 56758 [87] (Fig. 57, a and 
b) and 56757 [11] (Fig. 58, @ and b) are two such frocks. No. 56758 [87] 
is of mountain sheep skin, nearly white. As shown in the diagrams 
(Fig. 59, a, b, c,) the general pattern is not unlike the type described, 
but there are more pieces in the hood and several small gussets are in- 
serted to improve the set of the garment. The trimmings are shoulder 
Fig. 58.—Man’s frock of ermine skins, front and back. 
straps, and a border round the skirt of edging like that described above, 
and the seams of the throat pieces are piped with the dark almost 
hairless deerskin, which sets them off from the rest of the coat. The 
wrists have narrow borders of wolf fur, and there was a wolfskin fringe 
to the hood, which was removed before the garment was offered for sale, 
No. 56757 [11] is a very handsome garment (Fig. 58). The body 
and sleeves are of white and brown (winter and summer) ermine skins 
arranged in an elegant pattern, and the hood of reindeer and mountain 
sheep skin. This is the only frock seen in which the hood is not fitted 
to the sides of the throat by curved and pointed throat pieces, after the 
fashion universal among the western Eskimo, from Cape Bathurst at 
least to Norton Sound. The pattern of the hood is shown by the dia- 
1 There are several frocks so trimmed 1m the National Museum, from the Mackenzie and Anderson 
region, 
