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Small birch bark purse
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Sami work, indigenous people of Sweden.
Width
7.9inch
20cm
Height
6.7inch
17cm
Description
The Sami are a indigenous people d’une zone qui couvre le nord de la Swedenthe Norway and Finland as well as Kola Peninsula in Russia known as Lapland. Their endonym, Saami in their own language, is also sometimes written "Sámi", "Sames", "Samés" or "Sâmes". The Sámi speak Sami languages.
This people is often referred to as Lapps "but this term is not only a foreign termbut also originally pejorative, from the root lappwhich means "wearer of rags" in French. Swedish5. Similarly, they call their ancestral lands Sápmi not Lapland.
