Winter garments are of deer skin with its hair remaining, but summer clothing is of dressed skins alone.

These natives appear below the ordinary stature, and their legs seemed to me very small.

Ethnologists are divided concerning the origin of the Koriaks, some assigning them to the Mongol race and others to the Esquimaux.

The Koriaks express no opinion on the disputed point, and have none.
Both sexes dress alike, and wear ornaments of beads in their ears.
They have a curious custom of shaving the back part of the head, _a la moine_.

Fashion is as arbitrary among the Koriaks as in Paris or New York, and dictates the cut of garments and the style of hair dressing with unyielding severity.
Like savages everywhere, these natives manifest a fondness for civilized attire.