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162 GENERAL REMAKKS
is fewed a narrow ftripe, or border of cloth or fur; and on the right,
efpecially on the woman’s tunick, fmall filver knobs gilt: the
cuffs of the fleeve are |ikewife covered with a border of kerfey, or
other cloth, edged with otter’s {kin: a border of the lke kind
with that round the breaft and cutts of the fleeve is fewed about
the bottom ; and, as the woolly fide of the {kin is turned inwards,
the wool from within is feen hanging below the border. This
garment, thus fully defcribed, is worn by the Laplander next his
fkin, and, as has been already obferved, inftead of a fhirt.
The upper coat ufed by the men is made of kerfey, or fome
fuch coarfe cloth ; or otherwife of the {kin of the rein-deer, either
old or young, of a grey colour. This part of the drefs is called
by the Laplanders kaffe, and is provided, like the tunick, with an
upright ftitfened collar, extending to the chin, and furrounding
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the neck. This collar is worked with threads of different colours,
ina yery neat manner. The coat, as the tunick, is open only at
the breaft, and bound iike it with kerfey, or fome other fort of
cloth of various colours. On each fhoulder isa kind of band or
epaulette, cut in different forms, and of the fame ftuff. The
lower extremity of this coat is worked in figures with various co-
loured threads. This border, or fringe, is called in the Lapland
tongue /ufkildalk. ‘To tie the collar clofe about the neck, a run-
ning ftring is ufed. The collar, the opening at the breaft, and
the fhoulder-band, are all formed of flips of various coloured
cloths, and worked with threads of different hues: the cuffs of
the fleeve are ornamented in the fame manner; the bottom
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