Hello all, Today I will do an overview of the costumes of the Saami people. Previously they were called Lapps, but this is not wh...
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These are hard to date - would guess 1900 -1920 From my own collection of vintage postcards.
from Finland(kaisu57) Traditional Lapp costumes are still worn during Maria`s Day festival. Kiitos kortista,Kaija!
For thirteen years, there has been no reindeer herding agreement on the grazing of reindeer across the border between Sweden and Norway. In Sweden, reindeer herders view the 1751 Lapp Codicil as still valid.
Walking down the aisles of L, I pulled out the files for Labyrinth and found these: I looked in vain for a picture of my favorite labyrinth, constructed at the Yuan Ming Yuan, or old summer palace outside Beijing. The place is a ruin of the palace and gardens designed by Guiseppe Castiglione and other Jesuits to please the Qianlong emperor. But the images above are evocative and mysterious enough. It's just a little tricky to figure out how to use a labyrinth without it taking over the frame. I also knew I wanted to look for images of Lapps. I was struck by the grittiness of some of the images I found, as well as by the confrontational, proud stares with which these Lapps greeted the camera. I was also interested to read about their magical drumming tradition, pictured here: These drums spoke not only through sound, but also through the runes inscribed on their drumming surface. I was amazed (as usual) at the breadth of the collection of images, including this SAS airline menu image from the early 1970s: Did a librarian bring this home from her/his vacation? Or how did it wind up here in the picture collection? I also loved the thousands of images of lunch boxes, of which I've selected just a handful here. And, of course, there are beautiful images of libraries, both the fixed and the traveling variety: This beautiful Prague library has reappeared in my dreams ever since I saw its image, but the traveling library images brought back to me the smell of the bookmobiles I visited a few times as a child in Little Rock, Arkansas. I was drawn to later images, but was impressed at the variety of mobile libraries, some drawn by horses like the ice trucks in a previous entry. After looking through stacks of lighthouses, I suddenly saw how to combine some of these L images when I pulled out this lighthouse image from Nantucket: The blue sky and the quality of windy isolation inspired me to pair it with one Lapp, one lunchbox, and a labyrinth: I wonder if the aye-aye will get lost in the labyrinth, frighten the dog, or knock the pipe out of the giant Lapp's mouth?
From: Ritva in Finlandia (Private swap) Received 16 July 2008
Photograph of an old postcard from my own collection. Old postcard circa 1920 showing a Saami / Lapp woman with her young child.
This is the Sami flag. I tell ya’… I had shoes “komager” like these when I was a little girl… and it was the best shoes EVER for a really cold winter day. They really know what they are doing. Most coats and shoes are made by hand from reindeer skin… And it is beautiful if you ask me…. Aren’t they just beautiful?? This is a Sami wedding.. notice all the “sølje” silver she’s wearing… The Sami people reminds me of the american Indians… and I really think they should be able live their lives as they always have been.. and cherish the old traditions!
Galleri Balder présente des photographes clés qui ont travaillé en Norvège au cours de la dernière moitié du XIXe siècle. La collection couvre à la fois
