MALE AND FEMALE COSTUME. 
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a black mane, crouching on all fours, like some 
hideous sphinx, begin smoking the soothing weed 
with apparently the most perfect appreciation of 
its excellent quality. 
The dress of the men of this remote region is 
composed of coarse canvas or the skins of dogs 
and seals. Their legs are protected by laced 
buskins, and their feet by clumsy straw sandals. 
'Eveiy man carries a knife in a Avooden sheath, and 
a carved tobacco pouch. The lips of the Avomen 
are tattooed of a pale black colour, and their coarse 
straight hair is neither gathered up in a becoming 
knot, nor cojifined by coquettish net or other 
feminine device, but is simply parted doAvn the 
middle, and very much resembles a huge black 
mop. These unlovely’' Avomen have enormous 
metal ear-rings depending from the lobes of their 
ears, and necklaces of coloured beads adorn their 
necks. They are clothed in silver-gray or spotted 
seal-skins, and wear long boots of the same 
material reaching above the knee. A black 
leathern girdle, or “ cestus Veneris, encircles 
