Sami family setting up their home

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Description
A family of Sami people are standing outside a dwelling of vertical logs that meet in the top, center. The top is covered with hides. The dwelling is either being taken down or being built in Lapland, Sweden. Each person wears a tall hat and a long coat. A boy rests on one of the a steps hewn out of a log in order to reach the top of the dwelling. A man smoking a pipe looks to the top of the dwelling with his hand on his hip. Two women stand at the base of the dwelling; one in the doorway; one facing the doorway. Another girl, perhaps a neighbor, is standing off to the right side of the photograph. Reindeer antlers are set on top a grid of poles to dry behind the dwelling. More dwelling, already fully covered in hides, are raised across the path. Walking paths are all around the dwellings. Printed in white ink in the margin below the photograph, "4223. Stockholm, Skansen, Lappläger. Foto. of Axel Lindahl 1898."
Note
Digitizing agency: University of Missouri—Kansas City. Library. Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Special Collections.
Contributors
Date (Unspecified)
1905-03-12
Type
Extent
1 photograph : black and white print ; 17 x 22 cm
Publisher
Lindahl, Axel
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Source
Digitizing agency: University of Missouri--Kansas City. Library. Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Special Collections.
Unit
LaBudde Special Collections