Narrative of a journey to the shores of the Polar Sea, in the years 1819, 20, 21, and 22 . essive,nose aquihne, teeth white and regular, the forehead bold, the cheek-bones rather high. Their figure is usually good, above the middlesize, with slender, but well proportioned, limbs. Their colour is alight copper, and they have a profusion of very black hair, whichhangs over the ears, and shades the face. Their dress, which Ithink extremely neat and convenient, consists of a vest and trowsersof leather fitted to the body; over these a buffalo robe is tastefullythrown. These dresses are in general
Narrative of a journey to the shores of the Polar Sea, in the years 1819, 20, 21, and 22 . essive,nose aquihne, teeth white and regular, the forehead bold, the cheek-bones rather high. Their figure is usually good, above the middlesize, with slender, but well proportioned, limbs. Their colour is alight copper, and they have a profusion of very black hair, whichhangs over the ears, and shades the face. Their dress, which Ithink extremely neat and convenient, consists of a vest and trowsersof leather fitted to the body; over these a buffalo robe is tastefullythrown. These dresses are in general cleaned with tohite-mud, asort of marl, though some use red-earth, a kind of bog-iron-ore ; butthis colour neither looks so light, nor forms such an agreeable con-trast as the white with the black hair of the robe. Their quiver hangsbehind them, and in the hand is carried the bow, with an arrowalways ready for attack or defence,, and sometimes they have a gun ;they also carry a bag containing materials for making a fire, sometobacco, the calumet or pipe, and whatever valuables they may. a 5 t-1 s K »; a s^ ^ =g s ^ OF THE POLVR SEA. 105 j)Ossess. This hao; is neatly oinaniontetl witli porcupine ( equipped, the Stone Indian bears himself with an air ofperiect indej)endeiuo. The only articles of European coininerce they recpiire in exchangefor the meat they furnish to the tradin<ij post, are tobacco, knives,ammunition, and spirits, and occasionally some beads, but morefre(|uently buttons, which they string in their hair as .successful hunter Avill probably have two or three dozen of themhanging at ecpial distances on locks of hair, from each side of the fore-head. At the end of these small coral bells are sometimes attached,wliich tingle at every motion of the head; a noise which .seemsgreatly to delight the wearer; sometimes a string of them is boundround the head like a tiara ; and a l)unch of feathers gracefullycrowns the head. The Stone Inchans stea
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