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Strips of brown cloth, the cap itself being 

 of a greyish colour. This reaches no lower 

 than the tips of the ears. 



Their outer garment, or jacket, is open 

 in front half way down the bosom, below 

 which part it is fastened with hooks, as far 

 as the pit of the stomach. Consequently 

 the neck is bare, and from the effects of 

 the sun abroad and the smoke at home, 

 approaches the complexion of a toad. The 

 jacket when loose reaches below the knees; 

 but it is usually tied up with a girdle, so 

 as scarcely to reach so far, and is sloped 

 off at the bottom. The collar is of four 

 fingers' breadth, thick, and stitched with 

 thread. 



All the needle-work is performed by the 

 women. They make their thread of the 

 sinews in the legs of the reindeer, sepa- 

 rating them, while fresh, with their teeth, 

 into slender strings, which they twist to- 

 gether. A kind of cord is also made of 

 the roots of spruce fir. 



