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Of the Laplanders employments. 105
Their gowns are embroidered about the neck, Sleeves , breast, and fides;
gloves about the tops, Shoes 5 instep and tots , boots, about the knees, irt
which work they commonly pitfure, Stars, Flowers, Birds, Beasts,
especially Rain-deers: and to make iheir clothes more glorious, they Set them
with Spangles, fillets, points, and knots cf this thred, and we.ir upi n their
head Shreds of diverSe colored cloth , the pidures of all which you have
in the former Chapter, Boots F, Gloves G, Shoes H. The Rain-deerS
harnefs they embroider in the Same manfter.
Lastly they have nothing that appears in Sight, but it is hereby made very
commendable and ingenious. I have by me men and womens Scrips,
pin-caSes, Sheaths for knives, very curioudy wrought. Of all which, that I might
not feem to give too a large commendation of them, I have put the ri&ures
in the foregoing page.
CHAP- X X 11I
Of the Emploiments common to both Sexes.
TH E other buifineSfes, which we have not treated of yet, whether they
be at home or in journles, belong to both Sexes, and that they may be
the better undertaken, men and women wear breeches, and as Job. Torneeus
takes notice, eqtially undergo all pains and work excepting hunting: by
which words except2 venatione he doth not deny but men and women have
peculiar emploiments. In their travels the mailer of a family goes firft, with
his baggage and Rain-deers after him, andhext him his wife with hers; in
Summer they both walk on foot, in Winter both are drawn in Sledges,
which I have delcribed in the next page : in thefe they like children are tied
and bound fast With fillets and cords,efpecially When in haft,having Only their
hands and head at liberty,and their back leaning against the end. The
Rain-deer is not harncSTed like an Horfe j but hath a strong cloth about his neckj
to which is fastened a rope that goes between his fore and hind feet, to the
hole in the prou of the Hedge. He therefore that drew Olaus Magnus pidtures
was much deceived , when he made Rain-deers joined to the Sledge wirh’
traces on both fides, and ftich a collar about their necks, as is ufed iif
Other Countries Upon their thillers ; and in another place two yoaked
together drawing a cart with wheels, which is a’ thing unknown to the
Lap-landers, and men riding upon them as on a Horfe, whereas they never do
fo, but walk on foot,and carry their goods only on them in dorfers. He that
is drawn rules the beast , not with a bridle , but an halter made of Sea-dogs
skin tied about his head or horns ,■ fjftned to a stick yhichhe holds in one
hand, with which he removevthe thong to either fide, according as he
would go or turn : with the other he guides the Sledge, for it being round
at bottom is ftill wavering, fo that he which rides, muft ftill with the
motion of his body, and hand, take care it Overturns not, as you may fee in the
pifture. When they thus travel in the Winter, the Rain-deers ire bravely
adorned with needle work of tin-thred upon diverfe colour’d cloth, about
D d their
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