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II. TH B SWEDISH PEOPLE.
4. THE SWEDISH LAPPS.
An account of the ethnological conditions of Sweden would he
incomplete, if no attention were devoted also to the little congeries of
Lapps living in the northern parts of the country. The total number
of the Lapps in Sweden is only 7,000; their distribution has been shown
above (p. 93); and here may be added the following short notices
concerning their ethnographical origin, their customs, and their ways of living.
After the Sncnc-storm.
From & painting by Johan Tirén.
Just as the language of the Lapps belongs to the Ural-Altaic family, and
shows similarity to the Indo-European tongue only in so far as it has borrowed
various words from it during the course of centuries, thus also, the Lapps, or the
Same people, have their closest relations in the northernmost parts of
European or Asiatic Russia. Thus, among the Russian Tschouvassers, who live on
the banks of the Wolga, between Kasan and Nischneij Novgorod, one often meets
individuals whom even the most practised eye could mistake for genuine Lapps
of the southern type (those found in Vesterbotten and Jemtland); and, among the
northern Lapps, especially around the Enare träsk, and on Köla, one often finds a very
strong likeness to the Samoyeds. The prevailingly brachycephalous skull-formation,
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