Sealskin Trousers

Under the uutor pantaloons the Eskimo women wear a second pair of a thicker deer-skin, skin side out, with stocking feet. When the spring comes and the snow rets sloppy on the surface, they dtecard the outer pantaloons mi] puï nu water-prooi boots like the men'.s, but held up by a draw-string just belair the linee. Later in the season, when there is a good deal of wet weather and they are knockinfr around in boats, they wear pantaloons made wholly of waterproof black sealskin. All these pantaloons, like the men's breeches, are ráther short in the waist, and are held up by a tfirdle jut above the hips. Like a sailor's trousers they need a good deal of hitehing1 up. The frot;k is always confined round the waist by a girdle, often merely a strip of skin. The men, however, often have handsome belts about an inch and a half wide, woven of the shafts of feathers. By using black and white feathera a very neat pattern is produeed. The fashionable ladies' belt is made by sewing1 togther bits of fur from the feet of the wolverine, each with a single claw attached. Fastened to the belt behind, every man and boy wears the bushy tail of some animal. A wolverine's tail is the "correct thing;" but those who can not afford this wear the tail of the wolf or the Eskimo dog-. This fashion gave rise to the story, told by the old llussian voyagers, of men with tails on the American coast. It is also very fashionable to wear the skin of an ermine dangling from the frock between the shoulders, or an eag-le's feather in the same place or on the back of the hood. These are amulet?, and are supposed to bring good luck, like the dried birds' heads, bears' claws and other such things which the men wear dangling from the belt. The only head-covering is the hood of the frock which comes forward just far enough to cover the ears. 1 n very cold weather, or when they nre sitting on the ice watching for seals, the men wear cloaks of deer-skin over their other clothes. When it rains, or when they are out in the boats in rough weather, both men and women draw over their other clothes a frock made of stripes of the entrails of the seal dried and stitched together. This frock has a hood which fits close round the face, and is quite water-proof. Since these people have had so much to do with the white men, they have taken to wearing a good deal of brightcolored calicó. Of this they make long frocks without hoods, which they wear over their f urs in blustéring weather to keep the snow from getting on to them.