108 LYCKSELE LAPLAND. 



Its ends, a b and a c, are joined under the 

 reindeer's belly. The straps, d d d, are a 

 foot long. 



Fig. 4 is the harness, a foot and half 

 long, and three inches broad, without its 

 decorations. Under this is laid a roll, b, 

 made of reindeer skin, with the hair on, as 

 thick as a man's arm, which contains a 

 twisted net. This is covered in its upper 

 part by a, but the ends, c c, are exposed 

 to view, and covered with blue cloth em- 

 broidered with tin foil, each of them ter- 

 minating in a sort of ball, tied up with a 

 thong, e e, as the hairy part is with another 

 thong. 



Fig. 5 has at one end a noose, a, which 

 embraces the two balls just described, from 

 which a double leather thong, three inches 

 broad and four feet long, extends to a 

 transverse piece of bone, c, serving to take 

 hold of the sledge in which the Laplander 

 travels. 



No. 3 therefore is placed on the back 

 of the reindeer, b and c being tied toge- 



