Peasant art of the Sámi people. Embroidered reindeer harness. Drinking ladles. Knives and Flasks. Carved reindeer-horn bag-locks. Carved Match boxes and clasps. Needle cases.
The Sámi people in Scandinavia. Peasant art in Lapland.
Category: Lapland
Scandinavian costumes from Sweden, Iceland and Lapland.
Young girl from Reykjavik, Island in festive dress. Farmer and girl in Sunday state from Dalarna County, Sweden. Young woman in summer costume from the Swedish province of Bleking. Family in Sunday state from the Parish of Leksand, Dalarna, Sweden. Winter coat of sheepskin from the Swedish Sudermanland.
Historic costumes from Hardanger, Norway 1888.
Historic costumes from Hardanger, Norway 1888.
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A Lapp boy. Norway costume in 1896.
A Lapp boy. Norway 1896.
Samoyedic peoples from the island Novaya Zemlya
Samoyedic peoples from the island Novaya Zemlya Novaya Zemlya (Russian Новая Земля/Novaya Zemlya ‘new land’) is a Russian twin island located west of the Inner Eurasian border in the Arctic… Read More
A Laplander in traditional folk dress.
A Laplander in traditional folk dress. Un Lapon. THE Laplanders are of the middling stature; the greater part have flat faces, sunk cheeks, dark grey eyes, thin beard, straight brown… Read More
A Woman of Lapland in traditional dress.
A Woman of Lapland in traditional dress. Une Lapone. THE Lapland Women are short, but often well formed, obliging, modest, and extremely irritable. ‘Their trowsers, shoes, doublets and close coats,… Read More
Lapland. Inhabitants of the Lapps, Sami.
Inhabitants costumes of the Lapps, Sami.
Traditional Lapps and Eskimo dresses.
Mongol Race – Lapps and Esquimaux clothing. From left: 1.2. Swedish Lapps. 3.4. Norwegian Lapps. 5.6. Esquimaux from Victoria Land. 7. Esquimaux from Cape Barrow. The Comprehensive Atlas and Geography… Read More
