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fore and behind, and ends in a point; and a cap thus fhaped they 
call in their own language riindne kapperak, which means a cap 
with a nofe. The miffionary fays, he faw once a cap which be¬ 
longed to a poor Laplander, and was made of a falmon’s {kin ; 
it was white, and had fquare divifions, which were vifible where 
the feales had dropped from the ffiin. 
They w r ear a fort of riding-hood, called by them rivok, which 
they ufe in hunting, or in attending the tame rein-deer whilfl 
feeding. This hood has only a fmall opening to look through, is 
clofe fewed up before, and when it is put on the head covers the 
bread and ffioulders : in front there appears a flap, which is called 
zhialbme-raft. 
The men in Lapland very rarely w r car any covering about their 
necks, or whenever they make ufe of fomething like it, it conflds 
of a narrow piece of cloth, which only goes once round ; fo that 
their throats are always expofed naked, or nearly fo, to the feve- 
rity of the w'eathcr. 
The tunick, or clofe garment, w r orn by the Laplander, is called 
a fork, and is made of fheep’s ffiin with the wool on, the w r oolly 
fide being inw'ards: it has a high collar, made diff wdth kerfey, 
or other cloth, neatly worked with different coloured threads, and 
extending a little way down the bofom. As this tunick at the fame 
time ferves for a fliirt, it has no opening but where it covers the 
bread ; and it is more or lefs ornamented, according to the con¬ 
dition and fancy of the wearer, wdth cloth in like manner as the 
collar, and bordered with otter’s ffiin. On the left fide, in front, 
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