120 THE POINT BARROW ESKIMO. 
women nowadays often line the outer frock with drilling, bright calico, 
or even bedticking, and then wear it with this side out. 
The frocks for both sexes, while made on the same general pattern 
as those of the other Eskimo, differ in many details from those of east- 
ern America. For instance, the hood is not fitted in round the throat 
with the pointed throat pieces or fringed with wolf or wolverine skin 
until we reach the Eskimo of the Anderson River. Here, as shown by 
the specimens in the National Museum, the throat pieces are small and 
wide apart, and the men’s hoods only are fringed with wolverine skin. 
The women’s hoods are very large everywhere in the east for the better 
accommodation of the child, which is sometimes carried wholly in the 
hood.! 
The hind flap of the skirt of the woman’s frock, except in Greenland, 
has developed into a long narrow train reaching the ground, while the 
front flap is very much decreased in size (see references just quoted), 
The modern frock in Greenland is very short and has very small flaps 
(see illustrations in Rink’s Tales, etc., pp. 8 and 9), but the ancient 
fashion, judging from the plate in Crantz’s History of Greenland, re- 
ferred to above, was much more like that worn by the western Eskimo. 
In the Anderson and Mackenzie regions the flaps are short and rounded 
and the front flap considerably the smaller. There is less difference in 
the general shape of the men’s frocks. The hood is generally rounded 
and close fitting, except in Labrador and Baffin Land, where it is 
pointed on the crown. The skirt is sometimes prolonged into rounded 
flaps and a short scallop in front, as at Iglulik and some parts of Baffin 
Land.? Petitot® gives a full description of the dress of a “chief” from 
the Anderson River. He calls the frock a “blouse échanerée par cété et 
terminée en queues arrondies par devant et par derriére.” The style of 
frock worn at Point Barrow is the prevalent one along the western coast 
of America nearly to the Kuskokwim. On this river long hoodless 
frocks reaching nearly or quite to the ground are worn. The frock 
worn in Kadiak was hoodless and long, with short sleeves and large 
armholes beneath these.° 
The men of the Siberian Eskimo and sedentary Chukches, as at 
Plover Bay, wear in summer a loose straight-bottomed frock without a 
hood, but with a frill of long fur,round the neck. The winter frock is 
described as having ‘a square hood without trimmings, but capable of 
being drawn, like the mouth of a bag, around the face by a string in. 
! Egede, p.131; Crantz, i, p. 137 and Pl. 1m. (Greenland); Bessels, op. cit., p. 865 (Smith Sound—married 
women only); Parry, 2nd Voy., p. 494, andnumerous illustrations, passim (Iglulik); Packard, Naturalist 
Vol. 19, p. 6, Pl. xxi (Labrador), and Kumilien, 1. ¢., p.33 (Cumberland Gulf). See also several speci- 
mens in the National Museum from Ungava (collected by L. M. Turner) and the Mackenzie and Ander- 
son rivers (collected by MacFarlane). The hoods from the last region, while still much larger and 
wider than those in fashion at Point Barrow, are not so enormous as the more easternones. The little 
peak on the top of the woman's hood at Point Barrow may be a reminiscence of the pointed hood worn 
by the women mentioned by Bessels, op. cit. 
2 Parry, 2d Voy., p. 494, and Ist Voy., p. 283. 
* Monographie, etc., p. xiv. 
4 Petroff, op. cit. p. 134, Pls.4 and 5. See also specimens in the National Museum. 
® Petroff, op. cit., p. 139, and Liscansky, Voy., ete., p. 194. 
