NANNOOKE AND FOOT-GEAR. 
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the arms of the man pass through the arms of the 
garment, and the head rises through a slit at the top: 
around this slit comes up the hood. It is passed over 
the head from behind and made to embrace the face 
and forehead. Underneath the kapetah is a similar 
garment, but destitute of the hood, which is put on as 
we do an inner shirt. It is made of bird-skins chewed 
in the mouth by the women till they are perfectly soft, 
and it is worn with this unequalled down next the 
body. More than five hundred auks have been known 
to contribute to a garment of this description. 
“ So far the bust and upper limbs. The lower extre¬ 
mities are guarded by a pair of bear-skin breeches, the 
nan7ioo7ce ,—the characteristic and national vestiture of 
this strange people. They are literal copies, and in 
one sense fac-similes, of the courtly knee-buckled ones 
of our grandfathers, but not rising above the crests of 
the pelvis, thus leaving exposed those parts which in 
civilized countries are shielded most carefully. 
“I regard these strange and apparcntly-inconvenient 
articles of dress as unique. They compressed the 
muscles, which they affected to cover, in a manner so 
ungrandisonian that I leave 
a special description of their 
structure to my note-book. 
“The foot-gear consists of 
a bird-skin short sock, with a 
padding of grass nicely dis¬ 
tributed over the sole. Out¬ 
side of this comes a bear-skin 
BOOT AND SOCKS. 
