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Pioneers in Canada

CHAPTER XI
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Mackenzie noticed that the infants had their heads enclosed with boards covered with leather, to press the skull into the shape of a wedge.

The women wore a fringed apron, and over that a long robe made of skins or leather, either loose or tied round the middle with a girdle.

Over these in wet weather was worn a cap in the shape of an inverted bowl or dish.

The men also wore this cap, and in cold weather used the robe, but in warm weather went about in no clothing at all, except that their feet were protected with shoes made of dressed elks' skins.
In wet weather, over their robe they wore a circular mat with an opening in the middle sufficiently large to admit the head.

This, spreading over the shoulders, threw off the wet.


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