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The Smiths Sound [traits?] Fox skins jumper or
Kapetah is a close shirt fitting very
loosely to the person, but adapted to the
head and neck by an almost air tight
hood the nessak. The Kapetah is
put on from below, the arms are passed
through the arms of the garment and
the hood so turned that the long diameter
of its orifice corresponds to the long
diameter from head head to forehead.

[sketch]

The hood is then passed over the face from
C and made to embrace the face and
forehead

[sketch]

Underneat the Kapetah worn as an
inside shirt with us is a similar
garment, but [without] destitute of the hood. [known]
[as the] It is made
of bird skins, so chewed by the teeth of the women as to be
perfectly soft, and worn with their
unequalled down next the skin.
More than five hundred auks have been
known to contribute to [enter into] a garmint of this
description.

Those clothe the bust and
upper limbs.