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and bags than to true textiles like the goats’ wool blanketj whicli was 
manufactured from spun yarn. 
The natives of the Pacific coast not only used different materials, 
but evolved a different style of clothing from that prevailing, with 
certain variations, over the rest of Canada. In summer the men fre- 
(luently wore nothing at all, and both in summer and in winter men 
and women nearly always went barefoot, except among tribes like the 
Bella Coola, Tsimshian, and Tlinkit, who were in close contact with 
the interior natives and consequently often adoptetl the moccasin.^ 
The typical garment for everyday wear was an oblong cloak of skin 
Man. woniaii, aiul child of the Xootliji ti ihe, ucst coa."<t of Vanconver island, fh'c/oo- 
tluvvd, ihroHijh Ihe coiirfcHf/ of fhr J’tihlir Archircx of Cainidit, from Atlon paro 
(■/ I'inffc ile his (foleias stiiil if M cxictinii al reconorimioifo del vshveho de ■/uaii dc 
Finn en 17H2, ptihliritdo cit 
or cedar bark- that passed under the left arm and tied over the right 
shoulder, with a girdle encircling the waist. The men’s cloaks fell 
to the knees in front, and a little below them behind; the women 
extended it to reach tlie ankles,'* and in some tribes tied over or under 
it"* a short apron that stretched from the waist to the knees. In 
1 It is soiiK'tiiiics stated tliat the Pacific Coast tribes always went barefoot; Ijiit Cook says of tlie 
Xootka that “ a few have a kind of skin stockiiiK.s, which reach lialf-way up the tliigh." Cook, 
.James: “A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean”; vol. ii, p. 368 (London, 1785). 
“ Skin was more general among the northern trilies, cedar bark among the southern. 
3 .Among tlie Bella Coola tiie cloak worn liy both .se.xes had apparently the same length, reaching a 
little below the knees in front and to the heels behiml. Mackenzie: Op. cit,, pp. 322-371. 
The Haida women tied it over the chjak or dress, the Bella Coola apparently under. Dixon, G.t 
"A A'oyage Hound the World”; p. 239 (I.ondon, 1789). Mackenzie: Op. cit., p. 323. 
