. Siberia in Europe: a visit to the valley of the Petchora, in north-east Russia; with descriptions of the natural history, migration of birds, etc . added. On the off side of the saddle, opposite thehalsii, is a leather loop to which the bridle rein of thenext deer is attached. The collar is a narrow band aboutthree inches wide, also of tanned leather, passing round theneck. The two ends of this collar are fastened together bythe trace which passes from the sledge, between the hindlegs of the deer, between the body and the belly-band thathangs rather loosely, then between the forelegs to theb
. Siberia in Europe: a visit to the valley of the Petchora, in north-east Russia; with descriptions of the natural history, migration of birds, etc . added. On the off side of the saddle, opposite thehalsii, is a leather loop to which the bridle rein of thenext deer is attached. The collar is a narrow band aboutthree inches wide, also of tanned leather, passing round theneck. The two ends of this collar are fastened together bythe trace which passes from the sledge, between the hindlegs of the deer, between the body and the belly-band thathangs rather loosely, then between the forelegs to thebreast, where it passes through the two ends of the collar. 70 SIBERIA IN EUROPE. CHAP. VII. and is secured to a bone peg or paysih of simple con-struction. The head-piece or halter (for no bit is used) iscalled syahney. That of the leading deer consists of asquare straight piece of bone or horn, about four inches longon the right cheek, under the root of the horns with a holeat each end, and a second piece of horn, a semicircular orhalf-round section bending nearly rectangularly, not quitein the middle. This piece of horn is hollowed or deeply. KEIN RESTS. grooved on the flat side, and has a hole bored through ateach end, and a third hole about half an inch from that oneat the long end. The position of this piece of horn is withthe short end halfway across the forehead and the long end ina similar position to the straight piece of horn on the otherside of the head. Both pieces were more or less ornamentedwith simple carving; they are fastened together, the ends CHAP. VII. REINDEER HARNESS. 71 about a couple of inches apart by a short thong of plain orplaited leather passing through the holes at one end of eachpiece, and tied across the forehead. To the other ends ofthe pieces of bone, plain thongs of leather are attached, onepassing behind the horns, the other under the neck. Throughthe third hole, in the long side of the bent piece of horn passesa thong fastened to the single
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