kap'ta

Updated: June 17, 2025

In the winter they wear a long outside coat called a kap'ta. It reaches below the knees. It is made of reindeer skin with the hair left on. Under the kapta they wear warm clothes made of wool. Their shoes are also made of reindeer skin. They wear two pairs of thick woolen stockings. When they put on the stockings, they wrap their feet in dry grass. Then they put on their shoes.

Edward R. (Edward Richard) Shaw - Big People and Little People of Other Lands