. Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . Fm. 34. Eskimo womans deerakm coat. long boots in very severe weather. Indian moccasins are also worn, sometimes over a ])air of inside shoes and sometimes as inside shoes. For tliick waterproof soles the skin of the beaver or the harp seal is used. The former wears the better. White whale skin is also used WOMEM S GARMENTS. 215 for indoor shoes, or for shoes to be worn in cold dry weather; the skinsof tlie smaller seals are used, sometimes with the flesh side out and thehair in, sometimes wit
. Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . Fm. 34. Eskimo womans deerakm coat. long boots in very severe weather. Indian moccasins are also worn, sometimes over a ])air of inside shoes and sometimes as inside shoes. For tliick waterproof soles the skin of the beaver or the harp seal is used. The former wears the better. White whale skin is also used WOMEM S GARMENTS. 215 for indoor shoes, or for shoes to be worn in cold dry weather; the skinsof tlie smaller seals are used, sometimes with the flesh side out and thehair in, sometimes with the grain side out. These thinner skins arecomparatively waterproof if the black ei)idermis is allowed to remain. Fio. 35. Eskimo ivoiimn^ FiG. 36. Eskimo ? deerskin coat. on. The beautiful creamy-white leather, made by allowing the skin tofeiment until hair and epidermis are scraped off together and thenstretching the skin and exposing it to dry cold air, does not resistwater at all, and can oidy be used for soles in perfectly dry soles are also used to enable the wearer to walk betterwith snowshoes on, as the feet are not so liable to slip or clog witli 216 THE HUDSON BAY ESKIMO. snow as they would be if the footing were of sealskin. This latter hasalso another serious disadvantage. If it is very cold it does not permitthe moisture from the feet to pass out as it freezes, rendering the bootstiff and slijipery on the snowshoe, while the buckskin is porous andreadily allows the moisture to escape.
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