Identifier: uncivilizedraces02wood (find matches)
Title: The uncivilized races of men in all countries of the world; being a comprehensive account of their manners and customs, and of their physical, social, mental, moral and religious characteristics. By Rev. J. G. Wood... With new designs by Angas, Danby, Wolf, Zwecker... 1871
Year: 1871 (1870s)
Authors: Wood, John George, 1827-1889
Subjects: Ethnology. Manners and customs. Savages
Publisher: J. B. Burr and company
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University-Idaho

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uld follow the samecourse as that adopted by the Esquimaux,and make for themselves garments out ofthe thickest and warmest furs that can beprocured. They might do so if they chose. In someparts of their country they have the thick-woolled guanaco (probably an importationfrom the mainland), and in others are deerand foxes, not to mention the dogs whichthey keep in a domesticated state. Besides,there are few furs warmer than those of theseal, and seals of various kinds abound onthe Fuegian coasts, some, such as the sea-lion, being of very large size. Then thereare various water birds, whose skins wrou!dmake dresses equally light and warm, suchas the penguin, the duck, the albatross, andthe like. It is evident, therefore, that if the Fue-gian is not warmly and thickly clothed, it isnot from want of material, and that he isnaked not from necessity but choice. Andhe chooses nudity, neither sex wearing anydescription of clothes except a piece of sealor deer skin about eighteen inches square
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(1.) FUEGIAN8.(See page 1162.)

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