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A hunting campsite in Nuup Kangerlua fjord. Reindeer hunting in Greenland is of great importance to the Greenlandic Inuit and sports hunters, both residents and tourists. [1] Reindeer (caribou) [2] are an important source of meat, and harvesting them has always played an important role in the history, culture, and traditions of the Greenlandic ...
Hunter carrying reindeer meat. Hunting has always been an important aspect of the Greenland Inuit culture: "The Inuit culture is the most pure hunting culture in existence. Having adapted to the extreme living conditions in the High Arctic of the North American continent for at least four thousand years, Inuit are not even hunter-gatherers ...
The Svalbard reindeer ( Rangifer tarandus platyrhynchus) is a small subspecies or species of reindeer found on the Svalbard archipelago of Norway. Males average 65–90 kg (143–198 lb) in weight, females 53–70 kg (117–154 lb), [ 2] while for other reindeer generally body mass is 159–182 kg (351–401 lb) for males and 80–120 kg (180 ...
Mountain reindeer are medium to large even-toed ungulates with a thick double coat that protects them from the Norwegian winter. Male reindeer (bulls) weigh on average 70 to 150 kg (154 to 331 pounds), while females (cows) weigh on average 40 to 100 kg (88 to 220 pounds). Both bulls and cows have antlers, but cows do not use them to battle one ...
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Forest Sami settlement at Spänningsvallen between Järfojaur and Seudnur, designated since 1971 as the Arvidsjaur Municipality. 1873 woodcut based on a photograph.. The forest Sami (Swedish: Skogssamer) are Sami people who lived in the woods and who, unlike the reindeer-herding Sami people (the "fell Sami"), did not move up into the fells during the summer season.
A tomtenisse made of salt dough.A common Scandinavian Christmas decoration, 2004. Little girl tomte gnome, Skansen, Stockholm, Sweden, 2012. Modern vision of a nisse, 2007. A nisse (Danish:, Norwegian: [ˈnɪ̂sːə]), tomte (Swedish: [ˈtɔ̂mːtɛ]), tomtenisse, or tonttu (Finnish:) is a mythological creature from Nordic folklore today typically associated with the winter solstice and the ...
The Finnish forest reindeer (Rangifer fennicus fennicus (Finnish: metsäpeura, Russian: лесной северный олень ), also known as Eurasian or European forest reindeer[ 1] is a rare subspecies of the reindeer native to Finland and northwestern Russia. They are found primarily in Russian Karelia and the provinces of North Karelia ...