Instrument confiscated by the Danes is given back to the Sámi people after a lengthy campaign
, Sweden and Russia’s Kola peninsula. “It’s a precious object for us that is a symbol of our history, values and culture – and at the same time a symbol of colonisation and unequal power relations,” said Porsanger.
“For us these objects are not about collections, or representing a historical period,” said Porsanger. “They are not material objects. We think of them as humans, as persons.” The largest single collection of more than 30 is held at the Nordiska Museet, Stockholm; there are examples too in Berlin, Leipzig, Hamburg and Rome, as well as in the British Museum and Cambridge University’s Museum of Archaeology andThe Sámi population numbers about 60,000 to 70,000, of whom about 25,000 speak any one of nine surviving Sámi languages.struck a reindeer-skin and birchwood rune drum with a reindeer-antler hammer, a brass ring would move across its surface.
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