The women's faces are much less painted, usually a spot of red on each cheek and a circle of red round the roots of the hair or eyes." Here is a summary of what Alexander Henry, sen., wrote of the _Kri_ or _Knistino_ Indians of Lake Athabaska about 1770:-- "The men in general tattoo their bodies and arms very much.

The women confine this ornamentation to the chin, having three perpendicular lines from the middle of the chin to the lip, and one or more running on each side, nearly parallel with the corner of the mouth.

Their dress consists of leather; that of the men is a pair of leggings, reaching up to the hip and fastened to the girdle.

Between the legs is passed a strip of woollen stuff, but when this cannot be procured they use a piece of dressed leather about nine inches broad and four feet long, whose ends are drawn through the girdle and hang down before and behind about a foot....

The shirt is of soft dressed leather, either from the prong-buck or young red deer, close about the neck and hanging to the middle of the thigh; the sleeves are of the same, loose and open under the arms to the elbows, but thence to the wrist sewed tight.