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in addition to the robe of beaver or dressed moose 

 skins, wear an apron, twelve or eighteen inches 

 broad, which reaches nearly down to their knees. 

 These aprons are made of a piece of deer skin, or 

 of salmon skins, sewed together. Of the skin of 

 this fish, they sometimes make leggins, shoes, 

 bags, &c. but they are not durable ; and therefore 

 they prefer deer skins and cloth, which are more 

 pliable and soft. The, roughness of salmon skins, 

 renders them particularly unpleasant for aprons. 



A few of the male Carriers recently make use 

 of the breech-cloth, made of cloth which they pro- 

 cure from us ; but as evidence that no great sense 

 of delicacy has induced them to wear it, you will 

 see it one day at its proper place, the next, prob- 

 ably, about their heads, and the third around their 

 necks; and so on, repeatedly shifted from one 

 place to another. 



Both sexes perforate their noses ; and from 

 them, the men often suspend an ornament, consist- 

 ing of a piece of an oyster shell, or a small piece 

 of brass or copper. The women, particularly 

 those who are young, run a wooden pin through 

 their noses, upon each end of which they fix a 

 kind of shell bead, which is about an inch and an 

 half long, and nearly the size of the stem of a 

 common clay pipe. These beads, they obtain 

 from their neighbours, the At-e-nas, who purchase 



