SIBERIA IN EUROPE. 



CHAP. VII. 



and is secured to a bone peg or paysik of simple con- 

 struction. The head-piece or halter (for no bit is used) is 

 called syahney. That of the leading deer consists of a 

 square straight piece of bone or horn, about four inches long 

 on the right cheek, under the root of the horns with a hole 

 at each end, and a second piece of horn, a semicircular or 

 half-round section bending nearly rectangularly, not quite 

 in the middle. This piece of horn is hollowed or deeply 



REIN RESTS. 



grooved on the flat side, and has a hole bored through at 

 each end, and a third hole about half an inch from that one 

 at the long end. The position of this piece of horn is with 

 the short end halfway across the forehead and the long end in 

 a similar position to the straight piece of horn on the other 

 side of the head. Both pieces were more or less ornamented 

 with simple carving; they are fastened together, the ends 



