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The Chipewyan, Lakehead, Athabaskan and Yellowknives lived from Hudson's Bay and the Churchill River area to Great Slave Lake; they dressed very much as Paleao-Indians dressed when they first migrated into the Americas many thousands of years ago.

Men wore finely-tanned caribou hide clothing (with the hair left on for winter use, but scraped off for summer clothes). A breechclout was often the only thing worn during the warm months; skin trousers were sometimes attached to moccasins. Shirts reached to the thigh and were belted - the lower edge front and back came to a point and the entire shirt was fringed and sometimes painted yellow.

Women wore a shirt like those of the men, but reaching the ankles or the calf, belted and not pointed but straight along the bottom edge. Often these were made large enough for a baby to be carried inside, on the mother's back. Leggings were tied below the knees.

Early moccasins were often sewn to the leggings; boots of caribou skins were also made with soles of tough moose hide.

Parkas of caribou hide, trimmed with fur, were worn by men and women and children wore entire suits of rabbit fur for warmth.

Both sexes wore their hair very long and loose, but men sometimes cut theirs in different ways. Headbands of fur or skin were popular, or fur caps; mittens of moose or caribou skin kept the hands warm.

The Chipewyan people were slow to adopt European style clothes such as neck scarves, headscarves, blouses, shoes and dresses.

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