MURDOCH. ] MAN’S FROCK. a7 
gram (Fig. 60 a). The middle piece is the skin of a reindeer head, 
the two cheek pieces and median chin piece of mountain sheep skin. 
When the hood is put together the lower edge of it is sewed to the neck 
of the body, which has the back and front of nearly the same size and 
shape (diagram, Fig. 60 b), though the back is a little longer in the 
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Fig. 59.—Pattern of sheepskin frock. 
skirt. There is no regular seam on the shoulders, where irregular bits 
of white ermine skin are pieced together so as to fit. From the armpit 
on each side runs a narrow strip of sheepskin between back and front. 
The sleeve is a long piece made of three white ermine skins put together 
lengthwise, doubled above, with a straight strip of sheepskin let in be- 
low, and enlarged near the body by two triangular gussets (front and 
back) let in between the ermine and sheepskin. The wristbands are 
broad pieces of sheepskin. The skirts are of white ermine skins pieced 
together irregularly, but the skins composing the front, back, and 
sleeves are split down the back of the animal and neatly cut into long 
rectangular pieces, with the 
feet and tails still attached. 
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They are arranged in a pat- 
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skins fastened together end Les 
to end making a stripe, \ 
Back. : 
which is the same on the 
front and the back. There 
is a brown stripe down the middle, then two white stripes on each side, 
and a brown stripe on each edge. The hood is bound round the edge 
with white sheepskin and bordered with wolfskin. There are shoulder 
straps anda border round the skirt of edging of the usual materials, but 
slightly different arrangement, and tagged with small red glass beads. 
Fic. 60.—Pattern of ermine frock. a, hood; b, body. 
