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Of the Laplanders Handy-craft-trades. i aj.
considered will prcve this Nation not to be So dull and stupid as by Some it,
is fur pofed.
They have alSo one Art more worth taken notice of, as ingraving flowers
and feveral Beafts in bone,into w hich they cast feveral plates of Tin,and with
thefe figures the men and women adorn their girdles and other things: the
fame way they make their molds for casting bullets. They mike instruments
for all emploiments, as Cookery, &c. thofe for hunting are uSually made oS
bone, and others arc commonly adorned with it. Zeigler mentions tubs,
which are rather cups, or veSfels cut out of a stump of a Tree, as traies are :
and Wtxionius mentions other veSfels made of bark, but 1 forbear to fpeak
of any more, only I Shall add that they learn their art not from masters but
their fathers according to their capacity.
CHAP- XXII-
Of the Women s Emploiments.
HAvING rufi thro the mens emploiments, the womens are next to
be confidered. Two trades are most peculiar to them„ as doing thp
work of Taylors and Shoomakers , for they make and mend all the
Clothes, Shoes, Boots and Gloves 5 and they have a third the making
all thofe things that join the Rain-deer to the fledg, as collars, traces,
&c. in order to which they learn fubfervient arts , as making thred, which is
commonly of Rain-deers nerves, becaufe they have no flax : of this fort I
have fome by me. Olaus Magnus faith ad mditmentorum ufum, forthemaking
of Shirts , which made Lomenius believe the women wove this thred into
cloth, who I perceive in his Short description of Lapland, hath very clofely
followed his words more then his fenfe. In the making of their thred, which
is of about 3 ells long, the extent of the Rain-deers nerves, they first
cleanfe the nerves, then having cut off all the hard parts, they dry , and
hatchell them, and lastly mollify them with fiShes fat. Befides this they Spin
wool for fwadling clothes, and Hares fur , with which they knit caps, as
in other parts of Europe they do stockins with fcur knitting needles, which
art the Germans call ftricken. Thefe Caps areas foft as Swans down, and
extremly warm. In the fame manner they make Gloves, which are very
be-neficiall to them in the cold. The work of their fillets is very curious, for
they putin them many figures, as you may fee at the end of the foregoing
Chapter, at the figure I. The fourth trade is their covering thred with tin,
which first they draw into wire by pulling it thro little holes in horn with
their teeth, which holes they fill half up with bone, that the tin may be flat
on one fide, and fitter to be put on thred. The picture of a woman drawing
wire you have in the next page. Then they put it uporTthe nerves by the
help of a fpindle, which doth fo twist them together that they feem all tin,
and when they have done,they wind.it about their head of foot, least it Should
entangle and be fpoiled. And this is their way of making thred of tin , as in
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