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It is in the form of a truncated cone, with no openings for the arms. 

 Other forms of ceremonial blankets are simj^ly square pieces of cloth 

 to go about the shoulders, ornamented in totemic designs, or with pend- 



Fbr. 75. 

 Shaman's Cloak. 



(Cat. No. 89197, U. S. N. M. Skidegate, B. C. Collected by James G. Swan.) 



ant puifin beaks or deer hoofs attached to a long fringe. These are 

 sometimes of tanned deer skin, having the design painted on in a regu- 

 lar pattern in black and red colors. 



Ceremonial shirts or coats. — Fig. 34, Plate x, represents a woven cer- 

 emonial coat of mountain goat's wool as already described. Other 

 forms are made of cloth or blanket material and ornamented with to- 

 temic designs, as described above. Fig. 75a represents the Sea Lion, and 

 Fig. 756 is a rear view of the same coat ornamented with a design of 

 Wasico, a mythological animal of the wolf species. The edges and arm- 

 holes are bordered with red cloth, and the whole garment is neatly made. 

 Fig. 80, Plate xxi, represents a buckskin coat, with the right side 

 fringed and open and the left side sewed up, having an arm-hole for the 

 left arm. The bottom is also fringed, and the neck-hole slit to admit 

 the head. The design represents the bear. It is a Tlingit garment, 

 loaned to the Museum by Mr. Max B. Richardson, of Oswego, New 

 York. Other ceremonial coats are illustrated in the accompanying 

 plates. 



Ceremonial leggings. — These are of buckskin, blue cloth, blanket stuff, 

 or of goat's wool, woven as shown in Plate x. Fig. 33a. A very common 

 type is seen in Fig. 36, Plate x, fringed and ornamented with pend- 

 ant beaks of the pufl&n, shown in the detail of the same figure. Other 

 kinds are cut out in the pattern or outline of some totemic animal and 

 either painted in design or worked on in colored cloth by the applique 

 method. They are secured to the leg by straps of cloth or buckskin 

 and are usually worn in conjunction with moccasins or the bare feet. 

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