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of ataffel. Their cinétures and garters are formed of porcupine quills ie:
woven with finews, in a ftyle of peculiar fkill and neatnefs: they have --y—~
others of different materials, and more ordinary workmanfhip; and to

both they attach a long fringe of ftrings of leather, worked round with

hair of various colours. Their mittens are alfo fufpended from the

neck in a pofition convenient for the reception of the hands.

Their lodges are of a very fimple ftruGture : -a few poles fupported by.
a fork, and forming a femicircle at the bottom, with fome branches or a
piece of bark as a covering, conflitutes the whole of their native architec-.
ture. They build two of thefe huts facing each other, and make the
fire between them. The furniture harmonifes with the buildings: they
have a few difhes of wood, bark, or horn; the veffels in which they.
cook their vituals, are in the fhape of a gourd, narrow at the top and:
wide at the bottom, and of watape*, fabricated in fuch a manner.as to»
hold water, which is made to boil by putting a fucceffion of red-hot {tones:
into it. Thefe veffels contain from two to fix gallons.. They have a num--
ber of fmall leather bags to hold their embroidered work, lines, and nets..
They always keep a large quantity of the fibres of willow bark, which they:
work into thread on their thighs. Their nets are from three to forty
fathoms in length, and from thirteen to thirty-fix mefhes indepth. The
fhort deep ones they fet in the eddy current of rivers, and the long ones

in the lakes. They likewife make lines of the finews of the rein-deer,

and manufacture their hooks from wood, horn, or bone. Their arms
and weapons for hunting, are bows and arrows, fpears, daggers, and poga-
* Watape is the name given to the divided roots of the fpruce-fir, which the natives weave into a

degree of compaétnefs that renders it capable of containing a fluid. The different parts of the bark
canoes are alfo fewed together with this kind of filament.

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