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bands round the hood opening, along the edge of the hood and across the upper arm are made of white and blue beads on the background of the red and black cloth. The round figures on the breast consist of white and green beads on red background. The double curves are of brown beads, edged with white on a green Image missingFig. 130.Woman with bead trimming; fore side. background. The long, hanging fringes on breast and arm pieces and on the hood edge consist of strings of beads of variegated colours; thus on the breast: white — blue — yellow — blue dark — white — red — white — dark blue — white — dark blue — clear dull — green — clear dull; in the middle instead of the latter, are pierced caribou fore teeth. On the sleeves the colours of the bead strings are: white — dark brown — yellow — dark blue — white — dull red — white — dark blue — white — dark blue — white — green — dull white — blue — caribou fore teeth. The various strings of beads on the same edge are always coloured in the same manner and the various pieces of one colour are always of equal length. At the top of the front of the hood is a large flower: from a red central patch run four leaves, two green and two blue, all on white back- ground; round these, at some little distance from them, are concentric blue and yellowish-brown lines. On the middle of the back are two small red pieces of cloth embroided with a spectacle-like figure; from these hang long strings of beads ending