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Of the Garments of the Laplanders. 87
CHAP- XVII
Of the Garments of the Laplanders.
AMONG the Laplanders the men and women wear different kinds of
Garments, which they alter according to the Weather, and place: for
they wear one Sort of clothes in the Winter, and another Sort in the
Summer, one kind at home, and another abroad. Let us first confider the
Garments of the men: TheSe in the Summer have trouSes, or brougs, reaching
down to their feet, clofe to their body, upon which they wear a gown, or
rather a coat with fleeves , which conies down to the middle leg, which they
tie fast with a girdle. And in this reSpeft it was that Zieglerus in his time
wrote, that they uSed clofe Garments fitted ro their body, least they Should
hinder their work. He calls them clofe becaufe of their troufes, and fitted
to their body becaufe of their being girded. Thefe they wear next their
bare skin, without fuch linnen Shirts as th c Europeans ufe, they having no
flax in their Country. Thefe Girments are of courfe home-Spun woollen
cloth called Waldmar , of a white or gray color, fuch as the wool is of
before it is dyed. The wool they have from Swedland, and buy it of the
Merchants called Birkarli, but the richer fort wear a finer cloth, and not
of the fame color, but fometimes green or blew , and fometimes red, only
black they abominate. Tho fometimes in dirty works, and at home they
wear the meanest clothes, yet abroad, and especially upon Festivals and
Holydaies , they love to go very neat. Their girdles are made of leather,
which the richer Sort adorn with filver ftuds, and poorer with till. Thefe
studs stick out like buttons in a Semicircular figure. At this girdle they
hang a knife andfheath , and a kind of fquare bag, tho Something longer
then broad, alSo a leathern purSe,and then a caSe with needles and thred
in it. Their knives they have from Norway , the Sheath is of the skin of
the Rain-deers ,Sewed together with tin wire, and in other parrs with
the Same adornments , at the end of which they ufe to hang rings .• the bag
is alSo made of the skin cf the Raindeers, with the hair on it, on the
out-fide of which they alSo place another skin , equall to the bag , and make it
fast by three knots, and this skin they cover again with red cloth, or of
fome other color , adorned alfo with wire. In this bag they keep a stone to
strike fire, not of flint, but christall, as I will Shfew hereafter. AlSo a
steel, with Some brimestone to light a fire where cvef they come: as alfo
Tobacco and other odd things. The leathern purSe is alfo made of the fame
skin in an oval figure like a pear, in which they keep rheir mony , and
other more choice things, and at this alfo they hang rings. Their needjecafe
is of a peculiar fort, they have a fingle cloth with four Sides, but the upper
part is much narrower then the lower, fo that it is like an oblong triangle
cut off at the vertical angle, and to make it Stronger they bind about the
edges with leather, and fo Stick their needles into it, this they put into a
bag of the fame Shape, adorned with red , or feme other colored cloth, and
Y a wire,
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