124 THE POINT BARROW ESKIMO. 
Gloves.—Gloves of thin deerskin, worn with the hair in, and often 
elegantly ornamented, are used with full dress, especially at the dances. 
As already stated, the men wear such gloves under the pualu when 
shooting in the winter. When ready to shoot, the hunter slips off the 
mitten and holds it between his legs, while the glove enables him to 
cock the rifle and draw the trigger without touching the cold metal with 
his bare hands. There are two pairs of gloves in the collection. No. 
89829 [974] (Fig. 68) illustrates a very common style called a/drigtdrin. 
They are made of thin reindeer skin, with the white flesh side out, and 
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Fig. 68.—Deerskin gloves. 
are rights and lefts. The short and rather clumsy fingers and thumbs 
are separate pieces from the palm, which is one straight, broad piece, 
doubled so as to bring the seam on the same side as the thumb. The 
thumbs are not alike on both hands. The outside piece of the thumb 
runs down to the wrist on the left glove, but is shorter on the right, 
the lower 2 inches of the edge seam being between the edges of the 
palm piece. Each finger is a single piece doubled lengthwise and 
sewed over the tip and down one side. The wrists are ornamented with 
an edging of two narrow strips of clipped mountain sheep skin, bordered 
with a narrow strip of wolverine fur with the reddened flesh side out. 
These gloves were made for sale and are not well mated, one being 83 
inches, with fingers (all of the same length) 45 inches long, while the 
other is 8 inches long with fingers of 34 inches. No. 56747 [128] is a 
pair of gloves made in the same way but more elaborately ornamented. 
There is a band of deerskin but no fringe round the wrist. The back 
of the hand is covered with brown deerskin, hair out, into which is in- 
serted the square ornamental pattern in which the light stripes are 
white deerskin and the dark pipings the usual almost hairless fawn- 
skin. Gloves like this type are the most common and almost univer- 
sally have a fringe round the wrist. They are also usually a little 
longer-wristed than the mittens. 
