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388 ACCOUNT OF DANISH LAPLAND BY LEEMS.
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Ruflia, or linen Cattun, or of the white common linen, of which the handkercht
juft mentioned was made. Such as are white, are ornamented with fringes of a more
elegant texture.
The women of Ruffian Lapland wear filver ear-rings ; fometimes filver chains coming
round the neck, and appending to the ears. As the cloaks of each fex in fhape differ
fo little from one another, it does not rarely happen, a circumftance of which I have
been a credible eye-witnefs, that the hufband, without knowing it, puts on the cloak of
his wife, as fhe does in the fame manner the cloak of her hufband.
All clothing of this kind, male as well as female, fuch as furred garments, gloves,
fhoes of leather, &c. are made by women alone; as, on the other hand, the men are
employed in the occupation of women in preparing food and refrefhment.
Cuap. V.—Of the Habitations of the Laplanders.
THE hut of a maritime Laplander is called Lawme-Guarte ; it is built within of
timber fet upright, and without of the bark of the birch-tree, thatched over with turf.
Of thefe beams four are thicker, called in Lapland Baeljek, bent, and are the principal
beams that fuftain the bulk of the building. A pair are fixed on each fide of the hut,
driven at one extremity into the earth, but at the other, towards the gutter, which is
always in the middle of the building, upright. When they are faftened in the ground,
they are diftant from each other by a {mall interval, but gradually rifing, they keep in-
clining to join again near the brink of the gutter. Hence the faid four beams or Bael-
jek, raifed in a curved manner, refemblea pair of arches within. -Befides thofe four
thick beams ufed in erecting and confolidating the hut of a maritime Laplander, other
four curved rafters, called in Lapland, Zhianmek, are erected with them. A pair of thefe
feparated by a fall fpace in the building, in the inner part of the hut, and a pair alfo
near the door, are fet up: they are faftened in the ground at one extremity, but towards
the top, arching gradually, they rife towards the gutter of the building.
Between the faid beams fo often mentioned, Baelyek, erected on each fide of the hut,
and between the four others defcribed, Zhiaumek, placed in the interior part, near the
door, which, asT have juft now faid, are at a fmall diftance afunder, little beams, or
broad pieces of wood are lodged, as well within near the floor, as above towards the
roof, whence it is eafily underftood, that when the four Baeljek, and as many Zhiau-
mek rife archways from the ground to the gutter, and that the little beams, or broad
pieces of wood fitly correfpond in fituation with the larger timber of the building, the
hut refembles, on the infide, a fmall arch, from the ground to the gutter. This arch,
which the hut of the maritime Laplander forms on the infide, is fo low that you can-
not ftand upright, but before the fire, juft under the gutter, where the hut is higheft ;
for, if you incline but a little to the fides of the building, your body muft neceflarily be
bent. Where the arch touches the ground, there too are the feats in the hut of a
maritime Laplander, for fo funk and low is it that you mutt fit on the very ground
itfelf. ‘The hut, when entirely built and the timber laid in order, is floored within,
and to this flooring the beams are faftened with nails. In the hut of the maritime
Laplander, near the door, are laid on each fide fome fmooth ftones, in Lapland,
Juoudok. The floor of the hut is ufually round like a circle with branches of trees on
the levelled earth, every where paved, except in the middle where the fire-place is.
The fire-place itfelf confifts of rough ftones, in a double row, negligently piled on
the bare ground, from the door to that part of the building moft fitted for it, in which
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