MURDOCH. ] MANTLES. 
serted in the edge.”! 
wear the hoodless frock summer and winter, 
arate hoods in winter. 
which I saw worn at Plover Bay, namely, 
thin reindeer skin tied under the chin. The 
dress of the Siberian women consists of frock 
and baggy kneebreeches in one piece, sewed 
to tightfitting boots reaching to the knees.? 
Mantles.—‘ Circular” mantles of deerskin, 
fastened at the neck by a thong, and put on 
over the head like a poncho, are worn by the 
men in very cold weather over their other 
clothes when lounging in the open air about 
the village or watching at a seal hole or tend- 
ing the seal nets at night. The cloaks are 
especially affected by the older men, who, 
having grown-up sons or sons-in-law, do not 
have to go sealing in winter, and spend a 
great deal of their time in bright weather 
chatting together out of doors. There is 
one specimen in the collection, No. 56760 [94] (Fig. 65). 
121 
According to Nordenski6ld,’? the men at Pitlekaj 
putting on one or two sep- 
The under hood appears to be like one or two 
a close-fitting nightcap of 
Fic. 65.—Man’s cloak of deerskin. 
It is made of 
fine summer doe-reindeer skin, in three pieces, back and two sides of 
dark skin, sewed to a collar of white skin from the belly of the animal. 
é 
Fic. 66.—Pattern of man’s cloak. 
For pattern see diagram 
(Fig. 66). The seams at a 
are gored to make the cloak 
hang properly from the 
shoulder. The collar is in 
two pieces, joined in the 
middle, and the edge ¢ is 
turned over toward the hair 
side and “run” down in a 
narrow hem. The points b 
of the collar are brought 
together in the middle and 
joined by a little strap of 
deerskin about an inch 
long, so that the edge e 
makes a round hole for the 
neck. The width of the 
mantle is 60 inches and its 
depth 39. It is worn with 
the white flesh side out, as is indicated by the seams being sewed “over 
' Dall, Alaska, p. 379. 
2 Vega, vol. 2, p. 98. 
3 Nordenskidld, Vega, vol. 2, p. 100 and Fig. on p.57; Dall, Alaska, p. 379 and plate opposite. 
Compare also Krause Brothers, Geogr. Blatter, vol. 5, No.1, p. 5, 
ticed this dress at Plover Bay in 1881. 
Talsono- 
where the dress along the coast from East Cape to Plover Bay is described as we saw it at Plover Bay. 
