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producing the tribal variations, it was certainly one of the most 
important. 
The actual furs that made up this costume naturally depended 
on the local fauna. Furs from the deer family were the most general, 
on account of their size, warmth, lightness, and the ease with which 
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they could be la’ocured. The eastern Indians commonly dressed in 
moose skin, the northern Indians and the k^skimo in caribou fui, the 
prairie tribes in antelope hide, and the Indians of the Cordillera 
i‘egion in the skins of all three animals, according to the locality. 
Since these hides quickly lose their fur with dampness, the southern 
Indians generally dehaired them liefore making them iq:) into gai- 
