. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . e details of the weaving-are shown in Fig. 33a. The design on both the Llanket and the cere-monial shirt represents Hoorts, the bear. Fig. 34. Ceremonial G-arment or Shirt. Woven as described above. The trim-ming on the collar and cuflfs is sea-otter fur. Fig. 35. Chiefs Ceremonial Head-Dress. Carved from hard wood, beautifullyinlaid, painted, and polished. The erect fringe on the ujjper circumfer-ence is formed by seal whiskers set into the frame. The pendent trailis made from three lengths of ermine skins, there being a
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . e details of the weaving-are shown in Fig. 33a. The design on both the Llanket and the cere-monial shirt represents Hoorts, the bear. Fig. 34. Ceremonial G-arment or Shirt. Woven as described above. The trim-ming on the collar and cuflfs is sea-otter fur. Fig. 35. Chiefs Ceremonial Head-Dress. Carved from hard wood, beautifullyinlaid, painted, and polished. The erect fringe on the ujjper circumfer-ence is formed by seal whiskers set into the frame. The pendent trailis made from three lengths of ermine skins, there being about ten skinsin each row. The top of the head-dress is filled with birds down onceremonial occasions, and in the motion of the dances this sifts throughand falls like snow about the person of the dancer. Fig. 36. Buckskin Leggings. With three rows of puffin beaks, which rattle withthe motion of the wearer. This style of legging is also made from ordi-nary cloth, or from the woven blanket stuff, similar to Fig. 33. Report of National Museum, 1 888.—Niblack. Plate Details of Chiefs Costume, as shown in Plate IX. THE INDIANS OF THE NOETflWEST COAST. 265 colors, and edged and ofchorwise decorated with little tufts or frogs of woolen yarnsdyed of various colors. His head-dress was made of wood, much resembling in itsshape a crown, adorned with bright copper and brass plates, from whence hung anumber of tails or streamers, composed of wool and fur wrought together, dyed ofvarious colors, and each terminating by a whole ermine skin.* Another variety of this blanket is described by Lisiansky (1805), asseen by hira near Sitka: These blankets are embroidered with square figures, and fringed with black andyellow tassels. Some of them are so curiously worked on one side with fur of the sea-otter, that they appear as if lined with it, and are very handsome.! This is not unlike a blanket described by Vancouver, as worn by theKwakiutl, Johnstone Strait, British Columbia (latitude 52°
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