Sámi music
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In traditional Sámi music songs and joiks are important musical expressions of the Sámi people and Sámi languages. The Sámi also use a variety of musical instruments, some unique to the Sámi, some tra
A Nordic Sámi woman playing Lur horn in the evening. A wood cut made by Emma Edwall after nature in the mid-1800s.
Sámi drum
Nils-Aslak Valkeapää, a Finnish-born Norwegian Sámi musician and writer, widely known for his joiks and poems
Wimme Saari, a Sámi joiker from Kelottijärvi, Enontekiö
Sámi drum
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A Sámi drum, is a shamanic ceremonial drum used by the Sámi people of Northern Europe. Sámi ceremonial drums have two main variations, both oval-shaped: a bowl drum in which the drumhead is strapped o
Sámi music
…variety of musical instruments, several unique to them. Among these instruments are the fadno, a reedpipe made from Angelica archangelica stalks, and the Sámi drum. Late 18th century researchers also noted two bagpipes in Lapland: the sak-pipe and the wal-pipe. Other Sámi instruments of wider Scandinavian usage…
Schefferus' Lapponia (1673) is an early source for Sámi culture and religion
Lule Sámi bowl drum
Mari Boine with a modern drum. Drums are now used both as musical instruments and as symbols of Sámi identity.
Small 18th Century Sami Drum in the Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology