MURDOCH.] ~ BOOTS. 1 33 
tain-sheep skin anda dark brown deerskin, tagged with red worsted, with 
the edge which laps over the side piece cut into oblique tags. There are 
no tiestrings, as the soles are turned up high enough to stay in place 
without them. These boots were brought from the east by one of the 
Nuwitk trading parties in 1882. Fig. 80, No. 56749 [110], is also a full- 
dress boot, with soles like the last and no tiestrings. The leg is of two 
pieces of dark brown deerskin with the hair clipped short. These 
pieces are shaped like 2 in No. 56750, and the inner is larger, so that it 
laps round the leg, bringing the seam on the outside. The leg is en- 
larged to fit the swell of the calf by a large triangular gusset from the 
knee to the midleg, meeting the in- 
side piece in an oblique seam across 
the calf. Instead of a hem, the 
top of the leg has a half-inch band 
sewed round it and a binding for 
the drawstring above this. Edging 
is inserted in the front seam, and 
obliquely across the outside of the 
leg. That in the front seam is three 
narrow strips of deerskin, dark in 
the middle and light on each side. 
The other is of mountain-sheep skin 
in three strips, piped with fawnskin 
and tagged with worsted. 
The boots belong with the 
breeches, No. 56759. They fairly 
represent the style of full-dress 
boots worn with the loose-bottomed 
breeches. They all have draw- igs 
strings just below the knee, and rig. 79—Man’s dress boot of skin of mountain 
often have no tie-strings at the hee 
ankles. .The eastern Eskimo are everywhere described as wearing the 
boots tied at the top with a drawstring and the bottoms of the breeches 
usually loose and hanging down on them. Tying down the breeches 
over the tops of the boots, as is done at Point Barrow, is an improve- 
ment on the eastern fashion, as it closes the garments at the knee so as 
to prevent the entrance of cold air. The same result is obtained in an 
exactly opposite way by the people of Smith Sound, who, according to 
Bessels (Naturalist, vol. 18, p. 865), tie the boots over the breeches. 
All fur garments, including boots, are sewed in the same way, usually 
with reindeer sinew, by fitting the edges together and sewing them 
“over and over” on the “wrong” side. The waterproof boots of black 
sealskin, however, are sewed with an elaborate double seam, which is 
quite waterproof, and is made as follows: The two pieces are put to- 
gether, flesh side to flesh side, so that the edge of one projects beyond 
