118 THE POINT BARROW ESKIMO. 
The former owner of this beautiful frock (since dead) was always very 
elegantly dressed. His deerskin clothes were always much trimmed, and 
he owned an elegant frock of foxskins, alternately blue and white, with 
a hood of deerskin, which we did not succeed in obtaining for the col- 
lection. (The “jumper of mixed white and blue fox pelts,” seen by Dr. 
Kane at Ita,' must have been like this.) 
The woman’s frock differs from that worn by the men, in the shape 
of the hood and skirts, as mentioned above, and it is also slightly fitted 
Fic. 61.—Woman's frock, front and back. 
in to the waist and made to “bag” somewhat in the back, in order to 
give room for carrying the child. The pattern is considerably different 
from that of the man’s frock, as will be seen from the description of the 
type specimen (the only one in the collection), No. 74041 [1791] (Fig. 
61, a and b), which is of deerskin. The hood is raised into a little point 
on top and bulges out into a sort of rounded pocket at the nape. This 
is a holiday garment, made of strips of skin from the shanks and belly 
of the reindeer, pieced together so as to make a pattern of alternating 
‘Second Grinnell Exp., vol. 1, p. 203. 
