EXPLANATION OF PLATE XI. 



Modern Tlingit Male and Female Costumes. 



The costume of the man is more or less ceremonial, as the native dress has re- 

 cently been generally abandoned and European clothes adopted. The dress of the 

 women is that now generally worn by all the northern Indian women. The plate 

 represents the costume of ten or twenty years ago. and in this sense is modern. The 

 labret, a small cylinder of silver with a broad head, is the modern style of lip-orna- 

 ment, differing materially Lrom the large ones worn imtil a few years ago. 



