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Of the Garments of the Laplanders. 97
more steady. Now theSe are placed fo to fupport their dorfers mad£ of tht
fame wood, bended into ah oval figure much like a drum, if both ends were
round. Thefe dorfers at the bottom they draw together with twiggs of birch,
placed in the form of a grate , and the tops of them they tye with thdngs,
or cords, which they loofeas often as any thing is to be put in, or taken
out and least any thing Should fall out, they icover thefe dorfers all over
with bark of birch, or fome skins. Thefe dorfers they hang by ropes or
thongs to the tops of the fore mentioned lathes, which thfcy call Tobbii;
fo that they may hang down on both Sides the Rain-deer, the tops being
outward, and the bottoms turned inward toward the belly of the beast.
And thus they load their Rain-deers, not only with their goods and
houf-ho.’d stuff, but alfo with their Infants, which cannot walk themSelves. For
on one Side of the Rain-deer they often hang their cradles , and children in
them , of which I will Speak hereafter. Now in thefe journeys they have a
certain order Which no one without caufe ought todifturbj for in the first
place marches the Master of the Family, having fome Rain-deers after him,
loaded after the forefaid manner, afterwards follows his wife in like
manner ; then the whole herd cf Rain-deers ^ which his Children and Servants
drive foftly on Last of all brings up the rear, he that carries the Drumi
Now thefe pack-Rain-deers they do not ufeto drive yoked or joyned
together , but in a long line one after another , that which follows being
al-waies fitfd to the pannels of that which went before, and the Laplander
leading the foremoft by a rope tied about his neck , and fo they march cri
till they come to the place intended, where they fet up their Sheds-again^
and remain for fome weeks, which are to them instead of houfes. But now
there is fome difference in the Sheds of the Laplanders that live in the
mountains, and are called Pitllapper, and thofe that live in the Woods,
■who ire called Graan Lapper; for the one coming to the fame place but cnce
in a year, doth not build this Shed of fo durable stuff as the other: the former,
when he departs, almost destroying his habitation, and the latter leaving it
standing. The former build their Sheds thus , first, at four corners rhe£ ereft
four posts, upon the tops of which they place three rafters, fo that there
(hall be one on each Side, and one behind, but none crofs the formost poftsj
upon thefe rafters they afterwards place long poles, fo that with their tcps
they may lean upon, and fupport one another, whereby the whole form
feems to be like a quadrilaterall houfe , which afcending like a Pyramide,
is narrower at top, and broader at botrom. Thefe poles fo placed they cover
with courfe woollen cloth, which we before called Waldmar5 but the richer
fort over this woollen cloth place linnen alfo, by both which they may be
the better defended from rain and storms. Thefe are the Sheds [of the
Laplanders that dwell in the mountains, for the most part made of clothes, &c.
which when they leave any place they take with them , and ered in another.
But your Graanlapper, or Wood-Laplanders, make their Sheds for the most
part of board and polls, that at the top meet in a Cone, which they cover
with the boughs of Firrand Pine-trees, or elfe with the bark of thofe treesj
andfometimes with turff. That they covered them with the barks of trees,
Herberfienim witneffeth; Andr&as Bur<eus faies that thofe barks were of birch
trees, to whom alfo dtttmsOlaut Petri, who only adds, that they didalong
time boil thofe harks to make them more flexible. Olatn Magmu, Lib. 4.
X 2 Cap.
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