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usually attached to or forms part of the dress; mittens also are 

 sewn on; leather breeches reach below the knee; and leather 

 stockings, which fasten over the knee, complete the attire. The 

 fur garment worn by the women is edged down the sides of the 



Fig. 1220. Heathen Ostiaks 



opening with a carefully-pieced border of variously-coloured little 

 squares of short-haired fur, and always has a broad band of dog- 

 skin round the foot ; that worn by the men has at most a border of 

 dog-skin round the foot; the leather stockings, if they are deco- 

 rated at all, are composed of many prettily-combined, diversely- 

 coloured stripes of skin from the leg of a reindeer, with a stout 



