>;iL] DRESS OF CHURCH WOMEN AND CHILDREN. 
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articles of men’s dress. The woman’s dress is in general more 
ornamented than the man^s, and the skins used for it appear to 
be more carefully chosen and prepared. In the inner tent the 
women go nearly naked, only with quite short under-trousers of 
skin or calico or a narrow cingulum fudicitim. On the naked 
body there are worn besides one or two leather hands on one 
arm, a leather band on the throat, another round the v/aist, and 
a b 
CHUKCH CHILDREN. 
a. Girl from Irgnnnnk. (After a photograph by L. Paiander.) b. Boy from Pitlehaj, with his 
mother’s hood on. (After a drawing by the seaman Hansson.) 
some bracelets of iron or less frequently of copper on the wrists. 
The younger women however do not like to show themselves in 
this dress to foreigners, and they therefore hasten at their 
entrance to cover the lower part of the body with the pesk, or 
some other piece of dress that may be at hand. 
When the children are some years old they get the same 
dress as their parents, different for boys and girls. While small 
