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are always pointed, but barely large enough to be passed over the 

 head (fig. 17). 



The inner frock with the hair inside has exactly the same cut 

 as the outer frock, and both are very tastefully sewed with white 

 skin in all seams. In front on the breast there is some embroidered 

 work from which strings depend. Such strings, often ornamented 

 with beads, are also to be seen on the back both of the men's and 

 the women's frocks, and are merely ornamental. Above the inner 

 skin frocks, the women sometimes wear in damp weather beauti- 

 fully embroidered gut frocks. 



The outer breeches lie above the hips, but reach only a little 

 way under the fork (figs. 24, 34). It is only on long journeys in 

 severe cold that the naked loins are wrapped about with a piece 

 of skin. When at home they do not wear these breeches, but 

 merely a piece of three-cornered skin, which covers the sexual 

 parts, and is kept in place by straps over the hips. From the straps 

 there often depend by way of ornament a number of bands, on 

 which beads are sometimes strung. These small women's drawers 

 are always \vorn inside and are called, like those of the men, natit 

 (figs. 23, 24 and 293). 



The boots reach up over the knees, and have the form of large 

 riding-boots with very wide uppers and with a notch in front at 

 the top. Both the inner and outer boots are edged with bear skin 

 or dog skin. The foot of the boot is like that of the men (figs. 28, 

 304, 309, 311). 



The women do up their hair in a broad head-dress, which is 

 tied with a strip of skin, from which strings of beads hang dowai 

 over the hair (figs. 28 and 328). On the forelocks are strung small 

 beads, which hang down over the forehead (fig. 17). Beads are some- 

 times worn on the hair of the temples in front of the ear (fig. 27). 



When it is cold, they wrap round their heads a skin, which is 

 often beautifully embroidered. They sometimes use the grain side 

 of a bearded seal skin to make a kerchief of this kind. It is black 

 and has the appearance of cloth (fig. 327). 



The women wear their amulets either in the hair-dress, in the 

 flap in the front of the frock, or in a ribbon round the upper arm 

 or ankle. 



By way of ornament they wear in their ears a piece of carved 

 tooth, often triangularly shaped , which usually hangs on a string 

 of beads, or has beads hung on it (figs. 27 and 329, 330). Around 

 their neck they wear a necklace of skin from which beads 

 hang far dow^i over the breast (fig. 325). Sometimes they also 

 wear bracelets of skin embroidered wdth beads (fig. 349). 



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