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Artefacts related to housing and the home


  • Dwellings, herder's hut, lean-tos and peat huts as well as the objects that were part of their structure such as wall hangings, doors and poles
  • Gietkka or an infant's carrier cradle
  • Artefacts related to caring for and raising children
  • Tools for washing oneself and cleaning, such as brushes, basins and bathing vessels.
  • Artefacts related to preparing food such as pots, kettles, coffeepots and meat hooks.
  • Artefacts related to enjoying food and drink such as guksi (Sámi wooden cups), cups and gárri (shallow wooden dish)
  • Home textiles such as wall hangings, blankets, leather sleeping bags and hides
  • Leather bags and sacks such as niesti (a leather knapsack for provisions) and bags with reindeer bone at the mouth of the bag made out of reindeer, bird, sheep or fish hide
  • Wooden containers such as boxes, chests, staved containers, barrels, saltcellars and milking containers
  • Birch-bark containers
  • Pine and birch root containers
  • Other containers with a Sámi background
  • Other objects in and of Sámi homes and dwellings


 
   
   
 
Jan Gustavsson /Ájtte
 

Bag, Sweden.





Jan Gustavsson /Àjtte
 

Container, Sweden.

Jan Gustavsson /Ájtte

Wooden cup, Sweden.

 
       
   

 

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