The voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe; with a historical review of previous journeys along the north coast of the Old World . hey use overcoatsof pieces of seal-gut sewed together. On St. Lawrence Islandtheir dress is much ornamented, chiefly with tufts of feathers ofthe sea-fowl that breed in innumerable flocks on the island. It XIV.] ST. LAWRENCE ISLAND. 589 even appears that gut clotlies are made here for sale to othertribes ; otherwise it would be difficult to explain how Kotzebuessailors could in half an hour purchase at a single encampment:^00 coats of this kind. At the time of ou
The voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe; with a historical review of previous journeys along the north coast of the Old World . hey use overcoatsof pieces of seal-gut sewed together. On St. Lawrence Islandtheir dress is much ornamented, chiefly with tufts of feathers ofthe sea-fowl that breed in innumerable flocks on the island. It XIV.] ST. LAWRENCE ISLAND. 589 even appears that gut clotlies are made here for sale to othertribes ; otherwise it would be difficult to explain how Kotzebuessailors could in half an hour purchase at a single encampment:^00 coats of this kind. At the time of our visit all the nativeswent bareheaded, the men with their black tallow-like hairclipped to the root, with the exception of the common smallborder above the forehead. The women wore their hairplaited and adorned wath beads, and were much tattooed, partlyafter very intricate patterns, as is shown by the accompanyingwoodcuts. Like the children they mostly went barefooted andbarelegged. They were well grown, and many did not look ill,but all were merciless beggars, who actually followed ournaturalists on their excursions on TATTOOED WOMAN, FROM ST. LAWRENCE ISLAND. (After a drawing by A. Stuxberg.) The summer-tents were irregular, but pretty clean and lighthuts of gut, stretched on a frame of drift-wood and winter dwellings were now abandoned. They appearedto consist of holes in the earth, which were covered above, withthe exception of a square opening, with drift-wood and winter a sealskin tent was probably stretched overthis opening, but it was removed for the time, probably topermit the summer heat to penetrate into the hole and meltthe ice, which had collected during winter on its walls. Atseveral tents we found large under-jaws of whales fixed in theground. They were perforated above, and I suppose that thewinter-tent, in the absence of other framework, was stretchedover them, Masses of whale-bones lay thrown up along the 590 THE VOYAGE OF T
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