A cultural history of Sápmi and the Nordic countries as told
through objects and artifacts Material objects—things made, used,
and treasured—tell the story of a people and place. So it is for
the Indigenous Sámi living in Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia,
whose story unfolds across borders and centuries, in museums and
private collections. The objects created by the Sámi for daily and
ceremonial use were purchased and taken by Scandinavians and
foreign travelers in Lapland from the seventeenth century to the
present, and the collections described in From Lapland to Sápmi
map a complex history that is gradually shifting to a renaissance
of Sámi culture and craft, along with the return of many
historical objects to Sápmi, the Sámi homeland. The Sámi objects
first collected in Lapland by non-Indigenous people were drums and
other sacred artifacts, but later came to include handmade knives,
decorated spoons, clothing, and other domestic items owned by Sámi
reindeer herders and fishers, as well as artisanal crafts created
for sale. Barbara Sjoholm describes how these objects made their
way via clergy, merchants, and early scientists into curiosity
cabinets and eventually to museums in Copenhagen, Stockholm, Oslo,
and abroad. Musicians, writers, and tourists also collected Sámi
culture for research and enjoyment. Displays of Sámi material
culture in Scandinavia and England, Germany, and other countries in
museums, exhibition halls, and even zoos often became part of
racist and colonial discourse as examples of primitive culture, and
soon figured in the debates of ethnographers and curators over
representations of national folk traditions and “exotic”
peoples. Sjoholm follows these objects and collections from the Age
of Enlightenment through the twentieth century, when artisanship
took on new forms in commerce and museology and the Sámi began to
organize politically and culturally. Today, several collections of
Sámi objects are in the process of repatriation, while a new
generation of artists, activists, and artisans finds inspiration in
traditional heritage and languages. Deftly written and amply
illustrated, with contextual notes on language and Nordic history,
From Lapland to Sápmi brings to light the history of collecting,
displaying, and returning Sámi material culture, as well as the
story of Sámi creativity and individual and collective agency.
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