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Some people wear a pair of the same 

 size ; others have the left shoe smaller 

 than the right. Each is often lined or 

 covered, ahout the central part, with a 

 piece of hairy reindeer skin, to prevent 

 the foot slipping about upon the shoe, and 

 give a firmer step in walking over the 

 snow. This is most practised in Kimi- 

 Lapmark, where the wild reindeer are 

 most abundant. 



The Lapland thread is made out of the 

 tendons of remdeer fawns half a year old. 

 Such thread is covered with tin foil for 

 embroidery, its pliability rendering it pe- 

 culiarly fit for the purpose» The tendons 

 are dried in the sun, being hung over a 

 stick. They are never boiled. 



To show to what a high degree of per- 

 fection these people have arrived in the 

 art of making such thread j I brought 

 away ä sample of it, which I believe none 

 of our ladies could match. 



Shoes and baskets made of birch bark 

 are used both in Ångermanland and Hel- 



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