32 G. Holm. 



goggles are either carved in the form of a mask, or merely admit 

 the light through a narrow slit (fig. 323). 



The long hair is kept in place by a kind of halter, which is 

 ornamented with fish otalites, or beads of fox bone, or of the 

 vertebrae of angmagsat (fig. 324). As a general rule, the hair is 

 worn long and has never felt the touch of any cutting instrument, 

 it being in fact regarded as dangerous to lose any of one's hair. 

 Some, however, have their hair cut short from their childhood, 

 either only on the forehead, or else round the whole head. This 

 is done with knives made of shark's teeth (fig. 187), superstition 

 not allowing them to bring iron in contact with their hair. Those 

 who have their hair cut have no flaps on their frocks; the claws 

 on the flippers of the seals they take are cut off and thrown into the 

 sea, and the ears and tails of their dogs are cut off while they are 

 puppies. The bearded seals which are caught by persons whose 

 hair is never cut, have a few strips cut out of each flipper, which 

 are left hanging down on the skin. 



Crosswise over chest and back the men wear a harness-like 

 arrangement of rawhide cord in which are put amulets (fig. 18 and 

 348), placed on the chest and on the back. As a rule, the amulets 

 consist of splinters of wood , though sometimes of small carved 

 human figures^). Sometimes also they wear armlets on the upper 

 arm as amulets (fig. 349). They believe that this will ensure them 

 a long life. 



In the houses and tents the men wear only the small drawers 

 {natit) besides 'halters' for the hair and amulet straps. 



Women's dress. — The women's upper-frocks (amaut) have 

 about the same cut as those of the men, but are much wider over 

 the back and have much larger hoods, in which the babies are 

 carried (figs. 19 to 28 and 303 to 309). At the top of the hood is 

 often attached a cord with which the hood can be drawn over the 

 baby sitting in it (fig. 37). The frock is always worn over the 

 breeches, and the points or tails at the front and back are much 

 longer than those of the men. They are sometimes as much as a 

 foot long, and they are meant to be tied together between the legs 

 in snowy or cold weather. A long string on the breast of the frock 

 is meant to be tied round the back to prevent the child in the 

 hood slipping down. Women who have no children have frocks 

 the cut of which is more like that of the men's, but their hoods 



') Similar amulet straps were seen by Nelson on an Eskimo at. Bering Strait. 

 18th Ann. Rep. Bur. Amer. Etlmol. p. 435. 



