Notes on Surface Markings in Spitsbergen

barley or lucerne or gathering firewood they still retain it. The veil is made either of a piece of almost transparent cloth rather like limp canvas which covers the whole of the head and the breast, and which can be seen through by the wearer, or of a thick piece of cloth with two small slits for the eyes. This cloth is usually black, but sometimes of a livid purple colour, which gives the women a most uncanny appearance as though they were being strangled.