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on her head, faftens it to the faid button, or under it, with a 
ftring. 
The women wear likewife on a journey, or when they are 
watching their rein-deer by night, a covering which confifts of 
two parts ; the firft of which is of one piece, and protefts the 
head, neck, and fhoulders, inclofing likewife the chin : it is made 
of red, blue, or green kerfey, bound at bottom with a {tripe of 
cloth of a different colour ; over this, to wrap up their heads more 
completely, they put a high cap, fhaped like a crown, broader on 
the top., and leffening towards the opening without, and on the 
left fide it has a band of a different coloured cloth, or fometimes 
inftead of this a {trap covered with tinfel, having a ball of filver 
gilt fixed to the end. 
The tunick and upper garment worn by the women, differ little 
from thofe of the men : the tunick is made of fheep’s fkin, with 
the woolly part turned inwards, and varies from that of the men 
only in being gathered in plaits behind and before, but longer 
and clofer on the breaft, and coming down a little lower than 
the hips, whereas thofe of the men defeend below the knees. This 
tunick, as that of the men, ferves inftead of a linen fhift. The 
upper or outer garment is made of kerfey, and is diftinguifhed 
from that worn by the men in thefe few particulars only : the 
woman's extends below the knees, the man’s comes no lower than 
the thigh ; the latter has a high ftiff collar, the former has no 
collar at all. The woman’s fheep fkin tunick, however, has a high 
ftiffened collar which covers the neck and ears, and appears above 
the 
