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88 Of the Garments of the Laplanders.
wire, drawn together by a leathern string , by which they hang it to their
girdle. Befides theSe, they have Alchymy chains, wirh a great company of
rings of the fame, thefe they hang about all their body , the bag they hang
before, nigh their navel, all the reft they fling behind them. And thefe
are the Garments and ornaments of the body: their head they cover with
a cap, over which the richer fort wear a cafe of Fox, Beaver, or Badgers
skin, they are very like our night-caps, it is made of red or other colored
doth, or of the Hares fur, first twiftedinto a thred, and then knit almost
like our flockins; or lastly of the skin of the bird called Loom, with the
feathers on it: fometimes they fo order it, that keeping alfo the head and
wings of the bird, they make not an unbecoming cover for the head. Olaus
Magnus in his 4. Book, Cap. 3. faies they make their caps of the skins of
Geefe, Ducks , Cocks, which,as well as other birds,are there in great
abundance. But he doth doth not here mean common Cocks, but the
Vro-galli, or Heath-Cocks; however he gives us the pi dure in his 17 Book, Cap.
26. They have ordinary gloves, but Shoes of a peculiar make, they are made
of the skin of the Rain-deer with the hair on, out of one piece, only where
they tread they few both ends together, fo that the haires of one parr
may lie forward, and the other backward, least if they lay all one way they
Should be too flippery: but neither is there any more leather on the
bottom then on other parts, as it is in our Shces, only there is a hole at the top
in which they put in their feet: the toe bends upwards, and ends as it were
in a point. Upon the.Seame they place feme narrow pieces of red, or other
colored cloth: thefe Shoes they wear on their bare feet, and bind them
twice or thrice about the bottom with a thong, and least they lhould be too
loofe, they fill them up with a Sort oflong Hay, which they boil and keep
for that purpofe.
But now let us come to the garments they do not fo ordinarily wear,
but only on fome occafions, which both for the men and women are made
alike, and all of leather, to fecure them from the gnats. But in the Winter
time the men have breeches to defend them from the weather, and coats
which they call Miidd. Thefe Mudd are not all alike, but fome better, fome
worfe; the best are of the skins of young wild Rain-deers, just when they
have cast their firft coat, in the place of which comes a black one, which
is about the Feaft of S< James, and thefe are very foft and delicate. Their
feet they defend with boots of the fame skins, and theirhands with gloves
or mittens of the fame , and their heads with a cap , which reaches down
and covers part of their Shoulders alfo, leaving only a fpace for them to
fee through. All thefe Garments they wear next their skin without
anylin-nen underneath, and tie them round with a girdle, only their boots and
gloves they ftuff with hay , and Sometimes in the Winter with wool. And
this is that which Johannes Tomtits faies of their cloathing, that their
garment is made of the Rain-deer, the skin ofthebeaft Supplying them with
coats, breeches, gloves, Sandals, Shoes, &c. the hair being alwaieson the
outfide, So that they Seem to be all hairy. And hence we may underftand
Zitglerus, when he Saies their Winter garments were made of the skins of
Bears and Sea-Calves, which they tied in a knot at the top of their heads,
leaving nothing to be Seen but their eyes, So that they Seemed to be in a Sack,
only that it was made according to the Shape of their members 5 and hence,
faies
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