NO. lO DRAWINGS BY JOHN WEBBER BUSHNELL 



PRINCE WILLIAM SOUND. MAY, 1778 



Continuing along the coast the expedition arrived at another inlet 

 to which the name Prince William Sound was given. Here were 

 encountered the first Eskimo to be met when coming from the south- 

 ward, and they were easily recognized as differing in appearance from 

 the people of Nootka Sound. 



Evidently the habitations were away from the shores of the sound, 

 or possibly in some protected cove, as none was seen and consequently 

 no description of a native settlement was given in the narrative. But 

 many of the ]>eople visited the two ships, coming in boats of their 

 own make, some of which held more than twenty persons each. 



Men, women, and children were dressed alike. All wore " a kind 

 of close frock, or rather robe ; reaching generally to the ankles, though 

 sometimes only to the knees. At the upper part is a hole just sufficient 

 to admit the head, with sleeves that reach to the wrist. These frocks 



are made of the skins of different animals When it rains they 



put over this another frock, ingeniously made from the intestines of 

 whales, or some other large animal, prepared so skilfully, as almost to 

 resemble our gold-beaters' leaf. It is made to draw tight round the 

 neck : its sleeves reach as low as the wrist, round which they are tied 

 with a string Those who wear any thing on their heads, re- 

 sembled, in this respect, our friends at Nootka; having high truncated 

 conic caps, made of straw, and sometimes of wood, resembling a seal's 

 head well painted." One of the sketches by Webber, made at that time, 

 shows a man wearing a waterproof garment, such as was mentioned, 

 and also a characteristic hat with figures painted in red and black. The 

 second drawing is that of a man wearing a fur garment, " worn with 

 the hairy side outward," and ornamented with a fringe which appears 

 to have been formed of many small tails. 



To quote again from Captain Cook's narrative : " The men fre- 

 quently paint their faces of a bright red, and of a black colour, and 

 sometimes of a blue, or leaden colour ; but not in any regular figures ; 

 and the women, in some measure, endeavoured to imitate them, by 

 puncturing or staining the chin with black, that comes to a point in 

 each cheek.'' Men wore their hair short, " cropt round the neck and 

 forehead," but the women allowed theirs to grow long. Both men 

 and women perforated their ears in several places. " in which they 

 hang little bunches of beads, made of the same tubulose shelly sub- 



