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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 I220 — Heathen O-^tiaks 



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

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

 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 



