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styles of wearing the hair, and abandoned both tattooing and face- 
painting. As the contact increased they discarded their old dress 
entirely and adopted the costume of the new possessors of the soil. 
Now only the Eskimo of the north still retain their ancient winter 
garb witli little change, because the white man cannot as yet furnish 
another costume that offers more protection against the climatic 
conditions. 
