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ACCOUNT OF DANISH: LAPLAND BY LEEMS. 383
remedy this defeét, and to prevail on the purchafer, the difhoneft Laplander, in
order to conceal it, cunningly covers over the little holes in the hide that is eaten
through.
Cuap. 1V.—Of the Clothing of the Laplanders.
A CERTAIN writer has related to us, that the Laplanders wore cloathing of gold
and filver ornaments. Another writer, of no better faith, confidently afferts, that their
apparel confifted of the fkins of fea-calves and bears, and that the whole body was co-
vered over from head to heel as with a fack. A third writer has left it upon record,
that the women of this nation wear ornaments made from the dried entrails of wild
beafts ;_ which accounts, from their very air of romance, refute themfelves.
The men wear on their heads tall caps, not unlike a fugar-loaf. Great numbers of
this fort are made out of red cloth, called Ker/ey, confifting of four parts or fegments,
broad at bottom, but narrowing to a point at top. On every hem where there is a join-
ing, avery thin flip of cloth, kerfey, of a yellow colour, is feen in {uch a manner, that
the beholder thinks he feés four yellow fillets, from the loweft rim of the cap to its top :
on the top of which is difplayed a creft made from pieces of party-coloured cloth, with
a bordering from the {kin of the otter, drawn about the lower part.
In fome caps the faid bordering before and behind has a narrow form, which kind
of covering, Niudne Kapperak, a covering for the nofe, is fo named in the Lapland
language. I remember once to have feen a poor Laplander with a cap made from the
dreffed {kin of a falmon ; it was well nigh white coloured, marked with {quares, refem-
bling fcales of fifh, which had been thrown off.
The cap in which the men go hunting, or wear in pafturing their tame rein-deer, is
called Rivek. A {mall aperture is in the front, but the breaft, fhoulders, and part of the
back is covered by it; neither is it fatened over the bofom by belt, button, or any
other ligature, but fits clofe. In the front of the cap isa plate or covering, in Lapland
called Zhialbme-raft.
Cravats are very feldom worn by the men, and if worn, fo feanty and fhort are they,
that they come round the neck but once; and this is the reafon why the neck is ufually
expofed naked, and without covering, to the inclemency of their, cold.
The tunic, or inner garment. of the Laplander, called Tork, is made of fheep fkin,
neither {heared nor drefled, the hairy part being turned in. On the upper part of the
tunic isa {tiff high collar, made from kerfey, or fome other cloth, artificially variegated
with party-coloured threads. The tunic, as the fhirt, is downwards, an entire and con-
tinued piece, but upwards open, where it covers the breaft, and if made after the fafhion
and condition of the nation, is rather elegant and coftly ; a bordering goes round that
opening of kerfey, or fome fuch cloth, the edge of which is trimmed with a fillet made
from the {kin of the otter. On the left fide are flender bandages; but the right is ornae
mented, efpecially in the women’s garments, with gold and filver taffels. Their fleeves,
in like manner, have this edging to them, made from kerfey, or fome fuch cloth, on
the extremity of which isa fillet from the fkin of the otter. ‘The loweft border is tacked
round with a fringe from the fame cloth as the fringes on the bofom and on the fleeves ;
and as the hairy fide is always turned in, as obferved, it follows that the hair is every
where feen to hang below the extremities of their garments.
Shirts are very little worn either by the Laplanders; but the tunic or inner garment,
juft now defcribed, is next to the body, and fupplies the place of the fhirt,
6 Cloaks,
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