. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . CHIEFS Blue Cloth Ceremonial Vestment. THE INDIANS OF THE NORTHWEST COAST. 273 It is in the form of a truncated cone, with no openings for the forms of ceremonial blankets are simj^ly square pieces of clothto go about the shoulders, ornamented in totemic designs, or with pend-. Fbr. Cloak. (Cat. No. 89197, U. S. N. M. Skidegate, B. C. Collected by James G. Swan.) ant puifin beaks or deer hoofs attached to a long fringe. These aresometimes of tanned deer skin, having the design painted on in a regu-la
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . CHIEFS Blue Cloth Ceremonial Vestment. THE INDIANS OF THE NORTHWEST COAST. 273 It is in the form of a truncated cone, with no openings for the forms of ceremonial blankets are simj^ly square pieces of clothto go about the shoulders, ornamented in totemic designs, or with pend-. Fbr. Cloak. (Cat. No. 89197, U. S. N. M. Skidegate, B. C. Collected by James G. Swan.) ant puifin beaks or deer hoofs attached to a long fringe. These aresometimes of tanned deer skin, having the design painted on in a regu-lar pattern in black and red colors. Ceremonial shirts or coats.—Fig. 34, Plate x, represents a woven cer-emonial coat of mountain goats wool as already described. Otherforms are made of cloth or blanket material and ornamented with to-temic designs, as described above. Fig. 75a represents the Sea Lion, andFig. 756 is a rear view of the same coat ornamented with a design ofWasico, a mythological animal of the wolf species. The edges and arm-holes are bordered with red cloth, and the whole garment is neatly 80, Plate xxi, represents a buckskin coat, with the right sidefringed and open and the left side sewed up, having an arm-hole for theleft arm. The bottom is also fringed, and the neck-hole slit to admitthe head. The design represents the be
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