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full dress, the men wear a handsome belt woven from feathers, and the 
women one made of wolverines’ toes. There are in the collection two 
of the former and one of the latter. 
No. 89544 [1419] (Fig. 83a) has been chosen as the type of a man’s 
belt. It is 35 inches long and 1 inch broad, and made of the shafts of 
feathers woven into an elegant pattern, bordered on the edges with 
deerskin, and terminating in a leather loop at one end and a braided 
string at the other. The loop is a flat piece of skin of the bearded seal 
in which is cut a large oblong eye. The weaving begins at the square 
end of the loop. The warp consists of nine long strands sewed through 
the inner face of the leather so as to come out on the hinder edge. 
The middle strand is of stout sinew braid, ending in a knot on the 
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Fia. 83.—Man’s belt woven of feathers. The lower cut shows detail of pattern. 
inner side of the leather. The four on each side are of fine cotton 
twine or stout thread, each two being one continuous thread passing 
through the leather and out again. The woof is the shafts of small 
feathers regularly woven, the first strand woven over and under, end- 
ing over the warp, the next under and over, ending under the warp, 
and so on alternately, each strand extending about one-fourth inch 
beyond the outer warp-strand on each side. This makes the pattern 
shown in Fig. 83), a long stitch on each side, three very short ones 
on each side of the middle, and a slightly longer one in the mid- 
dle. The strips of feathers forming the woof are not joined together, 
but one strip is woven in as far as it will go, ending always on the 
inner side of the belt, a new strip beginning where the other ends. 
The shafts of black feathers, with a few of the barbs attached, are 
