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Laplanders
Ballantyne, R M, 1864, Watercolour
Laplanders
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24800
Title
Laplanders
Artist / maker
Ballantyne, R M
Date
1864
Size
10.5 x 7.0 cm
Type
Watercolour
Location
Edinburgh and Scottish Collection
Laplanders are indigenous nomadic people living in northern Scandinavia. However Lap is an outdated term and these natives would today be referred to as Sami people.
Description taken from R. M. Ballantyne's Norwegian adventure book, 'Chasing the Sun':
'A Lapp schoolmaster with wife and child.
Besides being four feet ten, the schoolmaster was comical and quizzical. He was evidently the wit of his tribe... On his head he wore a cap, somewhat like that of a jockey in shape, and his lower limbs were encased in tight but ill-fitting leggings. The schoolmaster's wife wore a sort of cloth helmet, and a rough yellow cloth gown, which was not by any means too long. Her little girl wore a tight-fitting skull-cap.'
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R M Ballantyne's 'Views of Norway'
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