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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 religion differs somewhat between regions and tribes. Although the deities are similar, their names vary between regions. The deities also overlap: in one region, one deity can appear as several separate deities, and in another region, several deities can be united in to just a few.
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
According to the Norwegian Sámi Parliament, the Sámi population of Norway is 40,000. If all people who speak Sámi or have a parent, grandparent, or great-grandparent who speaks or spoke Sámi are included, the number reaches 70,000. As of 2021, 20,545 people were registered to vote in the election for the Sámi Parliament in Norway. [172]
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 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 ...
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The primary tools used when working with the drum are mainly the drum hammer and one or two vuorbi for each drum. The drums also had different kinds of cords as well as "bear nails". The drum hammer (Northern Sami: bállin) was usually made of horn and was T- or Y-shaped, with two symmetric heads, and with geometric decorations. Some hammers ...