. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . erns to the one illustrated in Plate xvthey are not reproduced here. They differ only in having shoulderpads of hide secured on by toggles and straps and in offering someprotection to the arms, Vancouver (1793) thus describes a similarshirt worn by a war party of Nass, which his boat parties encountered: Their war garments were formed of two, three, or more folds, of the strongest hidesof the land animals they are able to procnre. In the center was a hole sufficient to * Dixon, Voyage, p. 191. t Mackenzie, Voyages, p. 371
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . erns to the one illustrated in Plate xvthey are not reproduced here. They differ only in having shoulderpads of hide secured on by toggles and straps and in offering someprotection to the arms, Vancouver (1793) thus describes a similarshirt worn by a war party of Nass, which his boat parties encountered: Their war garments were formed of two, three, or more folds, of the strongest hidesof the land animals they are able to procnre. In the center was a hole sufficient to * Dixon, Voyage, p. 191. t Mackenzie, Voyages, p. 371. tLisiansky, Voyagse, p. 150. THE INDIANS OF THE NORTHWEST COAST. 269 admit the head and left arm to pass through, the mode of wearing them being overthe right shoulder and under the left arm. The left side of the garment is sewed up, but the right side remains open; thebody is, however, tolerably well protected, and both arms are left at liberty for a further security on the pjbrt which covers the breast they sometimes fix on theinside thin laths of wood.*. Fig. of Weaving Aemor. (Cat, No. 49213, U. S. N. M. TlingU. Collected by J. J. McLean.) Fig. 53 is a rear view of a wooden cuirass or body armor fromSitka, showing method of strapping it to the body. It is from aspecimen in the I^ational Museum (No. 49213) consisting of numerous(seventy-four) rods of hard wood about 2 feet long, woven together withdark and white twine in alternate bands. The threads are sometimessingle and sometimes in pairs, and are made to pass over and under therods in pairs, but in such manner that the overlappings alternate fromone row to the next. This is shown in detail in Fig. 46, where la andlb represent the parts of one cord, and 2a and 26 represent those ofanother. The view represents the upper left hand corner of the weav-ing and two upper threads, showing seven rods in both plan and sec-tion. As stated, this method of running the cords or twine is varied byoccasionally runn
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