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GENERAL REMARKS 
is fewcd a narrow ftripe, or border of cloth or fur ; and on the right, 
efpecially on the woman’s tunick, fmall filver knobs gilt: the 
cuffs of the fleeve are likewife covered with a border of kerfey, or 
other cloth, edged with otter’s fkin : a border of the like kind 
with that round the bread: and cuffs of the fleeve is fewed about 
the bottom ; and, as the woolly fide of the fkin is turned inwards, 
the wool from within is feen hanging below the border. This 
garment, thus fully defcribed, is worn by the Laplander next his 
fkin, and, as has been already obferved, inftead of a fhirt. 
The upper coat ufed by the men is made of kerfey, or fome 
fuch coarfe cloth ; or otherwife of the fkin of the rein-deer, either 
old or young, of a grey colour. This part of the drefs is called 
by the Laplanders kqfte, and is provided, like the tunick, with an 
upright ffiffened collar, extending to the chin, and furrounding 
the neck. This collar is worked with threads of different colours, 
in a very neat manner. The coat, as the tunick, is open only at 
the breaft, and bound like it with kerfey, or fome other fort of 
cloth of various colours. On each fhoulder is a kind of band or 
epaulette, cut in different forms, and of the fame fluff. The 
lower extremity of this coat is worked in figures with various co¬ 
loured threads. This border, or fringe, is called in the Lapland 
tongue lujkuldalk. To tie the collar clofe about the neck, a run- 
' ning firing is ufed. The collar, the opening at the breaft, and 
the fhoulder-band, are all formed of flips of various coloured 
cloths, and worked with threads of different hues : the cuffs of 
the fleeve are ornamented in the fame manner; the bottom 
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