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"In general, the Chukchi whom we saw are of medium height,
but some are very tall and there are very few short ones,
rather well built, swarthy, not very prominent cheekbones,
with small, somewhat oblong eyes, with a look in them quick
and fearless, but not at all wild. They do not disfigure
their faces with anything, but shave their beards, and cut
their hair, leaving a small crown all around the head. The
women are short and generally uglier than the men, but there
are some very pretty young girls, quite fair. They braid
their long hair into two braids. On the cheeks they tattoo
oval figures. Across the forehead and along the nose they
draw one line each, and also about seven lines on the chin.
They also tattoo oval designs on their arms. Some decorate
one cheek and one arm; others, both cheeks and both arms. Both
men and women wear glass beads in their ears, and rich women
wear beads round their necks also.

"Their clothing consists of parkas, trousers, and tor-
basses [boots]; the women's trousers are very wide and the
torbasses are short. The women's trousers are always made
out of deer with the fur side out, but the men's trousers are
sometimes of seal. The torbasses are of seal, the parkas of
deerskins. When it is cold, they wear hats on their heads
and gloves on their hands from deerskins, often embroidered
with deer hair. One of the gloves is sewn with five fingers,
and the other one, with two or three. Over the parkas in
humid rainy weather they wear kamleis of two kinds, of rov-
duzhnyia [or] dressed deerskin, and of guts of walrus or seal.