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interested in the clothing of the ladies; they examined
every article, and made minute inquiries respecting
the price of each. A sealskin jacket was especially
admired, and its value fully appreciated. Brooches
and other articles of jewellery were critically
examined and valued, and their wearers proportionally
admired. This admiration was, however, severely
shocked when they came to the metal buttons,
which, in accordance with current fashion, were
abundantly displayed on some of the grey woollen
dresses. The Lapp kone at first assumed, as a
matter of course, that all these buttons were silver,
and, on being informed that they were not,
expressed their contempt very plainly, and were
evidently inclined to regard us all as impostors.
Silver buttons are usually to be found among the
family treasures, the heirlooms of both Norwegian
and Lapp families, and to wear buttons of baser
metal resembling silver is regarded by them in
about the same light as wearing a brass watch or
pewter finger-ring would be among Englishmen.
We bought several pairs of the komager or
Sunday shoes made of reindeer skin with the
fur outside (those for common wear have the fur
inside), embroidered with red and yellow braid,
and stitched with reindeer sinews; also some
spoons made of reindeer horn, and some of the
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