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the autumn the men go bareheaded, although they clip the hair 
on the crown of the head close to the root. 
During the warm season of the year a number of the winter 
wraps are laid off in proportion to the increase of the heat, so 
that the dress finally consists merely of a ]pesk, an overcoat, and 
a pair of trousers. The summer moccassins are often as long in 
the leg as our sea-boots. In the tent the men wear only short 
trousers reaching to the hip, together with leather belts (health- 
belts) at the waist and on the arms. The man’s dress is not 
much ornamented. On the other hand the men often wear 
strings of beads in the ears, or a skin band set with large, 
tastefully arranged beads or a leather band with some large 
beads on the brow. The leather band they will not willingly 
part with, and a woman told us that the beads in it indicate 
the number of enemies the wearer has killed. I am, however, 
quite certain that this was only an empty boast. Probably our 
informant referred to a tradition handed down from former war¬ 
like periods to the present time, and thus we have here only a 
Chukch form of the boasting about martial feats common even 
among civilised nations. 
To the dress of the men there belongs further a screen for the 
eyes, which is often beautifully ornamented with beads and 
silver mounting. This screen is worn especially in spring as a 
protection from the strong sunlight reflected from the snow- 
plains. At this season of the year snow-blindness is very 
common, but notwithstanding this snow-spectacles of the kind 
which the Eskimo and even the Samoyeds use are unknown 
here. 
The men are not tattooed, but have sometimes a black or red 
cross painted on the cheek. They wear the hair cut close to 
the root, with the exception of a short tuft right on the crown 
of the head and a short fringe above the brow. The women 
have long hair, parted right in the middle, and plaited along 
with strings of beads into plaits which hang down by the 
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