Note 5 — Chapter XLVI · THE GILYAKS.

The men and women dress very much alike. A number of small metal pendants about the size of a sixpence round the bottom of the blouse distinguishes the gentler sex. I purchased, too, at Mukhul some pieces of embroidery on fish-skin, the workmanship of which is thought good in England; whilst at Tyr was given me a kind of fish-skin open work or lace. The blouse of the men is fastened in front, and confined round the waist by a belt, to which is suspended a number of articles of daily use. They consist of a large knife, a Chinese pipe, an iron instrument for cleaning it, steel for striking a light, a bone for smoothing fish-skins and loosening knots, a bag of fish-skin for tinder, and a tobacco pouch, a specimen of which last, somewhat tastefully made of sturgeon’s skin, was given me at Nikolaefsk by the chief civil authority.