128 THE POINT BARROW ESKIMO. 
the pattern of No. 56748 [136], namely, brown, with white leg gussets. 
Pantaloons wholly of brown skin are quite common, especially for every- 
day wear, while striped ones, like No. 74042 [1792], are much less usual 
and worn specially for full dress. Children’s pantaloons are always 
brown, and I have seen one pair, worn by a young lad, of lynx skin. 
The two or three pairs which we saw worn by men were wholly brown. 
These pantaloons of leg skin with sealskin soles are always worn with 
the hair out and usually over a pair of under pantaloons of the same 
Shape, but made of softer skins with longer hair, which is worn next 
the skin, and with stocking feet. The outer pantaloons are discarded 
Zz 
J 
@ 
; : 
al . @ 
4 
/ ; 
b 
[ ; 
i 
9|| Ile | 
iy 
| 9 iB 
9, g 
Fic. 73.—Patterns of woman's pantaloons. 
in summer and the inner ones only worn, the feet being protected by 
sealskin waterproof boots, as already stated. The waterproof sealskin 
pantaloons mentioned in the same connection do not fit so neatly, as 
they are made with as few seams as possible (usually only one, up the 
leg) to avoid leakage. They are sewed with the waterproof seam, and 
held up round the ankle by strings, like the waterproof boots to be de- 
seribed further on. This last-mentioned garment seems to be peculiar 
to the Point Barrow region (including probably Wainwright Inlet and 
perhaps the rest of the coast down to Kotzebue Sound). No mention 
of such a complete protection against wet is to be found in any of the 
published accounts of the Eskimo elsewhere, nor are there any speci- 
mens in the Museum.! 
water-tight sealskin boots”), but probably refers to these as well as to the knee boots. The “outside 
coat of the same material,” and the boots and outside coat ‘made all in one, with a drawing string 
round the face,” mentioned in the same place, appears to have gone wholly out of fashion since his 
time. At all events, we saw neither, though we continually saw the natives when working in the 
boats, and these garments, especially the latter, could hardly have failed to attract our attention. 
