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168 GENERAL REMARKS
on her head, faftens it to the faid button, or under it, with a
ftring.
The women wear likewife on a journey, or when they are
watching their rein-deer by night, a covering which confifts of
two parts ; the firft of which is of one piece, and proteéts the
head, neck, and fhoulders, inclofing likewife the chin: it is made
of red, blue, or green kerfey, bound at bottom with a {tripe of
cloth of a different colour ; over this, to wrap up their heads more
completely, they put a high cap, fhaped like a crown, broader on
the top, and leflening towards the opening without, and on the
left fide it has a-band of a different coloured cloth, or fometimes
inftead of this a {trap covered with tinfel, having a ball of filver
gilt fixed to the end.
The tunick and upper garment worn by the women, differ little
from thofe of the men: the tunick is made of fheep’s fkin, with
the woolly part turned inwards, and varies from that of the men
only in being gathered in plaits behind and before, but longer
and clofer on the breaft, and coming down a little lower than
the hips, whereas thofe of the men defcend below the knees. This
tunick, as that of the men, ferves inftead of a linen fhift. The
upper or outer garment is made of kerfey, and is diftinguifhed
from that worn by the men in thefe few particulars only: the
woman’s extends below the knees, the man’s comes no lower than
the thigh; the latter has a high ftiff collar, the former has no
collar at all. The woman’s fheep {kin tunick, however, has a high
ftiffened collar which covers the neck and ears, and appears above
the
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