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Duodji is a traditional Sami handicraft, dating back to a time when the Sami were far more isolated from the outside world than they are today. [1] [2] [3] Duodji tools, clothing, and accessories are intended to primarily be functional, [4] [5] but may also incorporate artistic elements. [6]
The Sami knife has a long, wide, and strong blade that is suited for light chopping tasks such as de-limbing, cutting small trees for shelter poles (See lavvu), brush clearing, bone breaking and butchering tasks, [1] and is sometimes used as a substitute for an axe for chopping and splitting small amounts of firewood from standing dead trees—an essential ability when all dead and fallen wood ...
The Sámi belief that all significant natural objects (such as animals, plants, rocks, etc.) possess a soul, and from a polytheistic perspective, traditional Sámi beliefs include a multitude of spirits. [1] Sámi traditional beliefs and practices commonly emphasizes veneration of the dead and of animal spirits.
Astrid Båhl (born 1959), Norwegian Sámi artist, designed the Sami flag; Samuel Balto (1861–1921), Norwegian Sámi director; Katarina Barruk (born 1994), Swedish Sámi singer who performs in the Ume Sami language; Ellen-Sylvia Blind (1925–2009), Swedish Sámi writer; Mari Boine (born 1956), musician, Norwegian Sámi
The Sámi people (also Saami) are a Native people of northern Europe inhabiting Sápmi, which today encompasses northern parts of Sweden, Norway, Finland, and the Kola Peninsula of Russia. The traditional Sámi lifestyle, dominated by hunting, fishing and trading, was preserved until the Late Middle Ages , when the modern structures of the ...
Many Sámi people continued to practice their religion up until the 18th century. [122] Most Sámi today belong to the state-run Lutheran churches of Norway, Sweden and Finland. Some Sámi in Russia belong to the Russian Orthodox Church , and similarly, some Skolt Sámi resettled in Finland are also part of an Eastern Orthodox congregation ...
Though at first glance authentic to non-Saami people, the patterns on these gáktis are not traditional anywhere in Sapmi. Gákti is the Northern Sámi word used by non-Sámi speakers to refer to many different types of traditional clothing worn by the Sámi in northern areas of Norway, Sweden, Finland and the Kola Peninsula in Russia.
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