Sami handicraft

Sami country – known as Sápmi – stretches across the northern part of Scandinavia and Russia’s Kola Peninsula.

The Sami handicraft, The Duodji, is well known for it's beautiful ethnic style with strong colors in weaved ribbons and also embroideries and jewelry made of spun silver/pewter wire. These bracelets are popular all over the world but hard to find in stores. Beautiful Sami bracelets has been handmade from 100% vegetable dyed, soft reindeer leather with pewter and silver braided detailing and Handmade antler button made from shed reindeer antlers. The wire of pewter contains 4% of silver…

Every February, the small town of Jokkmokk in Swedish Lapland hosts the 400-year-old winter market of the indigenous Sámi people, with folk dancing, reindeer races and traditional food

Hello all, Today I will do an overview of the costumes of the Saami people. Previously they were called Lapps, but this is not what they call themselves, and they consider the term to be pejorative. The origin of the word Lapp is controverted, but it may be from Old Finnish/Estonian for a place far away. The Land of the Saami; Sápmi, Sábme, or Saemie, depending on the Dialect, is split between four nation-states, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia. It consists of the northern part of the…

Read "The Sámi Peoples of the North A Social and Cultural History" by Neil Kent available from Rakuten Kobo. There is no single volume that encompasses an integrated social and cultural history of the Sámi people from the Nordic ...

Sami women's "chatelaine"

Siida Sámi Museum - Inari - Suomi - Finland. Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported

Knud Leem was a priest in the Sami areas about 1724.

Sami Beaivi Akka Bag

The Sami children