Friday, August 31, 2007

Children of the sun and the wind

The mattress from annuitant skins, a fire as Nachttischlampe and in the cover a hole for the smoke outlet - to guest in the Sami Camp Batsuoj at the polar circle. At the campfire the annuitant breeders tell Lotta and Tom Svensson of the daily life of the natives Lapplands.

Lotta Svensson turns an skin-occupied annuitant ear in the hand. Around the small, strong woman visitors of the copied Sami Camp Batsuoj sit with Arvidsjaur, 30 kilometers south the polar circle. It hands the cut off ear, like before the piece of annuitant sausage, to its neighbour and tells of the annual calf marking. Everyone can feel the sharp edges, where the Samin at that time cut raisin-large notches out with the measurer.

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