ESKIMO DRESS. 2/1 



remember seeing any babies, and there seemed to be few 

 children compared to the adults ; here as in the arctic 

 regions the Eskimos having small families. 



The women's dress differs from that of the Greenland 

 Eskimo in the much longer tails of their jackets, which, 

 as seen in our engraving, nearly reach to the ground ; 

 by the Greenlanders it is worn but little longer than the 

 men's ; this .difference, as seen on p. 247, was remarked by 

 Cranch. Of late years woolen goods have partly super- 

 seded sealskin, but the pattern has been retained. An- 

 other difference is the form of the kayak ; that of the 

 Labrador Eskimo is much broader than the Greenland 

 kayak, and of clumsier build, since the frame of the for- 

 mer is made of spruce ; this renders the Labrador kayak 

 perhaps safer. 



So far as we could see, the Labrador Eskimos at and 

 north of Hopedale are full-blooded. Our engraving 

 is from a photograph taken by Mr. Bradford, and 

 gives an excellent idea of a Hopedale Eskimo couple 

 with their baby. The faces apparently show no trace of 

 foreign blood, while there is said to be not a full-blooded 

 Eskimo in the Greenland colony, the intermixture with 

 the Danes and Scandinavians in general being thorough- 

 going. Few Europeans or Americans had previous to 

 1864 visited the Labrador coast north of Hopedale, and 

 there the race has been preserved in most cases intact, 

 though there may now be an occasional intermixture with 

 the Newfoundland fishermen, who now go as far as Nain. 



As to the number and distribution of the Eskimos 

 north of the Moravian stations, we now have some defi- 

 nite information from Lieut. Gordon's report of the 

 Hudson's Bay expedition of 1884. He says: "lean- 



