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conscious of the object of our visit. He then crept
into the hut, and awakened the women, children,
and dogs.
I was pleased to observe that he and the women
went to the stream hard by, knelt down, and
washed their hands and faces, but cannot certify
to their habitual use of such ablution. It may
have been an extraordinary performance in honour
of their visitors, and in part consideration of the
three dollars. The women then brought forth
komager, and horn spoons for sale, as before,
and some of the filaments of tendon of which
they make their sewing thread. They showed
us their mode of spinning it. I had previously
supposed that the distaff and reel were the
simplest forms of spinning apparatus, but here
learned that the machinery of the Lapp spinster is
still more rudimentary. She takes several of the
tendon fibres, places them side by side and end
to end with ends overlapping, then draws them
between her lips as they proceed in length, in
order to effect a temporary adhesion. When this
preliminary salivated thread reaches about three
feet in length, she holds out one end in one hand
at arms-length sideways, then spits upon the palm
of the other hand and rubs the nearest end of the
thread between the wet palm and her cheek, with
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