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in front of them forming together the figure 8. Their bodies are composed 

 of a spiral with a semicircle resting on it. The two symmetrical figures are 

 combined below by a spur, which they have in common. 



On the collar (Fig. 5, Plate xxv) belonging to the same series of patterns, 

 we observe, in the centre, two confronting upright fish-cocks. On either side of 

 them are two others, whose bodies are produced by placing two fishes together in 

 the form of a spiral. In the lower field the cock-beaks hold, instead of the usual 

 fish, the figure of a plant-form, a kind of trefoil. 



The riband seen in Fig. 6, Plate xxv, belongs to the same garment as the 

 collar above mentioned. Here are facing spirals. From the sides of those rolled 

 upward project cock-heads with semicircles under the throats, resting on the outer 

 windings of the spirals ; from those rolled downward issue inverted cock-heads 

 with ovals placed on the backs of their necks. 



The ornaments on the following patterns (Figs. 7-10, Plate xxv,) are treated 

 in arboreal style. The figures represented are used to trim shirt-pockets. 

 Fig. 7 shows two cock-beaks turned downward, and encompassed on the sides 

 by spur-lines, both holding a three-lobed rosette. At the lower extremities of 

 the under arcs are two leaves, consisting of three circles each ; and near the same 

 ends of the arcs are two fishes moulded in the style of leaves. In Fig. 8 four dif 

 ferent forms of conventionalized fishes lie close together (a, b, c, d ), three of them 

 (6, c, d} clustered around a circle. Farther below is a conventionalized tripartite 

 fish (e} ; f is also an imitation of the fish-body, but is here developed into a 

 palmetto-like floral pattern. A figure of similar character occurs in the lower part 

 of Fig. 9. The latter was evidently intended for the trunk of a tree sending 

 off spiral-formed boughs, the edges of which are adorned with three single leaves. 

 Fig. 10 illustrates a plant-like design of allied style in the under part of the orna 

 ment, the lateral branches being indicated by long, narrow fish-forms (large ribbed 

 leaves), and the centre filled with a small two-lobed leaf, below which issues 

 another large one. In the upper part we have two conventionalized fishes 

 attached to a pair of facing spirals. In the corners beyond the fishes are two 

 triskeles-shaped cocks characterized as such by the conventional form of the fish 

 in their respective beaks. 



Fig. 11, Plate xxv, is added here because it shows a pattern pertaining to 

 the same robe as the four preceding ones. There is a palmetto-like figure in the 

 centre, from which branch off on both sides arabesques built up of triskeles. 



Figs, i and la, Plate xxvi, show a woman s embroidered mitten made of 

 reindeer-skin covered with cloth. The former represents the back, and the latter 

 the palm. The spaces between the single lines are filled up with zigzag stitches. 

 On the back of the mitten is a tree-like formation, in which two two-lobed leaves 

 are attached to opposite sides of a stem, the two on the left being embroidered in 

 ereen satin-stitch, those; on the ri^ht in lilac. This tree is crowned with a heart- 



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shaped figure enclosing a bifoliate red-colored leaf. The five leaves contained in 

 the ellipse below are all light green. Tendrils adorned with triskeles grow round 



