kapta

The women were all busy; one was weaving shoe-bands of bright colors, red predominating; another was just finishing a "kapta," and a third one was putting a lining of red flannel over the seams upon a tiny pair of reindeer-skin shoes for a child; the girls were sewing some undergarments.

The Land of the Long Night 1869

I put on a new pair of reindeer trousers, that were lent to me and that had never been worn before, and a new "kapta."

The Land of the Long Night 1869

The Finlanders do not dress like the Laplanders when they are at home; it is only when they travel that they wear the kapta or pesh.

The Land of the Long Night 1869

Then they dressed themselves for the night, putting on over the garments they wore during the day a long reindeer kapta, a sort of nightshirt reaching below the feet.

The Land of the Long Night 1869

After our meal we went into our snow houses, and taking off my Lapp grass and stockings, I laid them inside of my kapta on my chest to dry the dampness out of them during the night.

The Land of the Long Night 1869