{"id":2129,"date":"2020-02-27T22:01:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T22:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nordligefolk.no\/?p=2129"},"modified":"2026-02-09T22:12:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T22:12:14","slug":"jakt-og-fangst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nordligefolk.no\/en\/jakt-og-fangst\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunting and trapping"},"content":{"rendered":"

Descriptions from early times indicate that the region was rich in wild reindeer, bears, otters, foxes, squirrels, beavers and grouse, and place names such as Goddej\u00e1vri \/ Wild Reindeer Lake and \u010cavkkus \/ The Otter provide information about hunting and trapping areas. Archaeological finds tell of a widespread hunting and trapping culture where the fur trade provided good financial returns.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fur was sold at markets and through tax collectors. School teacher Ole Thomassen gives good descriptions of hunting tools and their use in the old days, in The conditions of the patches, <\/em>1999, s. 78-86.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The artefacts to be returned include hunting and trapping equipment that was important to traditional livelihoods, and was often made by local hunters and craftspeople.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Motif from the northern part of Skibotn Marketplace. Photo: J\u00f8rgen Wickstr\u00f8m, 1883. North Troms Museum.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

NFSA. 1728 Ri\u0161\u0161agohppu \/ Sulphur cup with lighter <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This small ri\u0161\u0161agohppu \/ sulphur cup is carved out of wood and contains sulphur, lighters and is a fine example of a tool made according to need. The lighter was stored in its own bag, dollabursa,<\/em> along with fire steel and a small piece of flint. The Ri\u0161\u0161agohppu \/ sulphur cup measures 3 cm in diameter and 1.2 cm in height. It was brought to the University's Ethnographic Museum from Oamasvuotna \/ Storfjord in 1931.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Ri\u0161\u0161agohppu
Ri\u0161\u0161agohppu \/ sulphur cup with lighter. Photo: Norwegian Folk Museum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

NFSA. 3130 Bivdo\u00e1vvi osiiguin \/ hunting belt with equipment<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Bivdo\u00e1vvi osiiguin\/hunting belt with equipment consists of three horns, a small bone container and a leather pouch attached with leather straps to a woven band. One of the horns is ornamented and inscribed in the hunting equipment: a)IONACD c)ON<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Bivdo\u00e1vvi
NFSA. 3130 Bivdo\u00e1vvi osiiguin\/hunting belt with equipment. Photo: Norwegian Folk Museum.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The hunting equipment is used in Moskavuotna \/ Ullsfjord (S\u00f8rfjorden), Ivgu \/ Lyngen. It was received by the Norwegian Folk Museum in 1952. According to linguist Konrad Nielsen's descriptions of hunting equipment in Lappish dictionary. Systematic part,<\/em> such hunting equipment consisted of: \u00aba powder horn, a blasting horn, a ball pouch which also contained a brush for polishing the rifle, two powder measures of reindeer horn (the small one for birds, the large one + the small one for bears), in the centre a powder measure for birds, with a pin to regulate the amount of powder\u00bb (Nielsen 1979: 392 (170). <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

NFSA. 2546 Buoiddaruovdi \/ weeding shears<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Forged and riveted, the Buoiddaruovdi \/ weasel scissors consist of a spring steel construction with arches that collapse on contact with a base plate. Height 8 cm, width 10.2 cm and length 25.5 cm. Ole Thommasen (1999:80) describes that larger animals such as bears, wolves, wolverines, foxes and otters were also caught in similar scissors. Skins from large and small animals were of great importance in the fur trade. The buoiddaruovdi \/ weasel scissors were collected by Dr Asbj\u00f8rn Nesheim in Biert\u00e1v\u00e1rri \/ Birtavarre, G\u00e1ivuotna \/ K\u00e5fjord, in 1949. It was brought to the University Ethnographic Museum in 1949. Nesheim was hired as manager of the newly established Sami department at the Norwegian Folk Museum in 1951.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Buoiddaruovdi
Buoiddaruovdi \/ smoke tax scissors that are folded. Photo: Norwegian Folk Museum.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

NFSA. 1416 \u010ceavrastohkka \/ otter stick, otter trap<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Triangular \u010deavrastohkka\/ otter stick, otter trap with separate part for bait attachment, made of wood with twisted rope and iron nails. Length 115 cm, height 75 cm and thickness 14 cm, and the length of the bait attachment is 36.5 cm. \u010ceavrastohkka \/ otter stick, the otter trap is from Bassevuovdi\/ Helligskogen, Oamasvuotna\/ Storfjord. It was purchased for the University Ethnographic Museum in 1912 by deacon Bertrand M. Nilsen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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NFSA. 1416. \u010ceavrastohkka \/ otter stick, otter trap open. Photo: Norwegian Folk Museum.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

School teacher Ole Thomassen describes the use of \u010deavrastohkka \/ otter trap in Lyngen Herred in his records from 1896-98: \u00abOtters are also caught with the so-called cane -\u00a0\u010deavrastohkka -\u00a0<\/em>a kind of trap placed in the opening of the hole where the otter lives during the day, consisting of two birch logs about a metre long, fastened together at one end with a thread. The inner side of both logs is fitted with approximately 5 cm long iron spikes. One of these, the base log, is securely fastened with stones across the opening of the hole, while the other, the end of the top log, with its weight of stones, is balanced in such a way that when the otter begins to enter the hole, the log falls down and the otter is squeezed in between.\u00bb (Thommassen 1999).\u00a0Ratio of patches<\/em>\u00a0s 80-81).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Descriptions from early times indicate that the region was rich in wild reindeer, bears, otters, foxes, squirrels, beavers and grouse, and place names such as Goddej\u00e1vri \/ Wild Reindeer Lake and \u010cavkkus \/ The Otter provide information about hunting and trapping areas. Archaeological finds tell of a widespread hunting and trapping culture where the fur trade provided good financial returns.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[37],"class_list":["post-2129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-historie-og-religion","tag-baastede"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordligefolk.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordligefolk.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordligefolk.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nordligefolk.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nordligefolk.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nordligefolk.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2132,"href":"https:\/\/nordligefolk.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2129\/revisions\/2132"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nordligefolk.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordligefolk.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nordligefolk.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nordligefolk.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}