A LABRADOR SPRING 
turesque caps of red and dark blue broadcloth 
in alternate stripes in shape like a liberty cap. 
The bands of these caps were ornamented in 
bead-work which seemed to increase in extent 
with the increasing years of the wearer. The 
men’s head gear was a more prosaic black cloth 
cap with a visor. Both sexes wore either long 
seal skin boots with the hair shaved off, or, 
as was usually the case, low caribou skin mocca- 
sins, more or less ornamented, and thick woollen 
stockings, of bright primitive colours, red, 
green, white, blue and purple, in stripes. These 
stockings in the case of the men, were pulled up 
to the knees over the trousers, which were the 
ordinary cylindrical affairs of civilization, weath- 
ered from black or brown, to a good neutral 
tint. A rough cloth jacket or one of dirty white 
canvas completed the costume in the men, 
which was given a touch of colour by a red or 
blue handkerchief tied about the neck and 
shoulders, 
The women wore stout woollen skirts, gen- 
erally of dark plaid, their costume completed 
above by a bodice of red or plaid, fitting snugly 
about their powerful waists and shoulders, and 
by a coloured handkerchief that was knotted 
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