. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . ys that among the Tlin-git, this was only practiced by the Ordinarily the hair isworn short by the men, excepting the shaman^ and long by the women,who usually wear it done up in two plaits down the back, but sometimesin one plait, or clubbed behind and bound with red cloth. The ear-lier custom was somewhat different, according to Portlock (1787), whosays: The women wear their hair either clubbed behind or tied up ina bunch on the crown of the head; the men wear theirs either loose ortied at the crown. The hair is d
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . ys that among the Tlin-git, this was only practiced by the Ordinarily the hair isworn short by the men, excepting the shaman^ and long by the women,who usually wear it done up in two plaits down the back, but sometimesin one plait, or clubbed behind and bound with red cloth. The ear-lier custom was somewhat different, according to Portlock (1787), whosays: The women wear their hair either clubbed behind or tied up ina bunch on the crown of the head; the men wear theirs either loose ortied at the crown. The hair is dressed with combs of a somewhat conventional pattern,as illustrated in Figs, lie and 11^, which are from two specimens in theEmmons Collection in the Museum of Natural History, New lie is made from a small, thin piece of bone, while \ld is carved * Vancouver, Voyage. Vol. ii, p. 337. t Portlock, Voyage (1787), p. 290. 260 EEPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1888. from cedar wood and ornamented with atotemic design. Figure lie isa stone comb in this same
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