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PLATE XX.
A FEMALE OSTIAK.
T. HE women, in summer, wear the same sort of dress as the men,
which is all made from the skins of fish; but over this, they, in winter,
wear a long loose gown or coat, made sometimes of tanned leather,
and sometimes of cloth, or fur from the rein-deer. They covcr their
head with a sort of hood or veil, \\ hich fiills down to their shoulders,
but which, when they work, they lift up : it is always either bordered
or fringed all round. The employment of the females consists in drying
fish, from the entrails of which they procure oil; they also prepare a
kind of glue from them, and tan the skin. The Ostiaks, both male
and female, are addicted to drunkenness; but, as they have little else
to drink besides water, they contj-ive to intoxicate themselves with the
iumes of tobacco, and by eating a .species of mushroom or champignon,
f Agaricus miiscar. Lisx.) When intoxicated, they become extravagantly
gay, they sing, and jump, and make a noise; but, on their
return to their senses, after taking some sleep, they seem to have
forgotten every thing, that has passed.
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