{"id":12735,"date":"2022-03-21T06:16:46","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T12:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=12735"},"modified":"2022-03-21T13:45:25","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T19:45:25","slug":"12735","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=12735","title":{"rendered":"A Historic Shaman’s Drum is Restored to the S\u00e1mi People"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The drum was used in divinitory rituals. (Photograph: Trustees of the British Museum)<\/p><\/div>\n

In the fall of 2021, S\u00e1mi<\/a>((Also called Laplanders, who live in northern Norway, Sweden, Finland, and a bit of Russia)) people living in Norway asked the the queen of Denmark and the\u00a0 Danish National Museum if they could have one of their old-time shaman’s drum back.<\/a><\/p>\n

The drum belonged to a S\u00e1mi shaman, Anders Poulsson, who was arrested and imprisoned, according to court records. It was confiscated and became part of the Danish royal family\u2019s art collection before being transferred to Denmark\u2019s National Museum<\/a> in 1849. . . .<\/p>\n

\u201cThrough this drum, we will be able to explain so much about S\u00e1mi history. It tells a story about emancipation and the S\u00e1mi struggle to own our culture,\u2019 added [the president of the S\u00e1mi parliament, Aili] Keskitalo. \u201cThe drum is the key to explaining our heritage.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Nomadic S\u00e1mi people, about 1900. (Wikimedia Commons)<\/p><\/div>\n

The drum, confiscated in 1691 as part of a larger effort to turn the animistic S\u00e1mi into good Lutheran Christians, went to Denmark because at the time Norway was ruled from Denmark, a “union” that lasted four hundred years and ended in 1814.<\/p>\n

Now the wheel \u2014 or the drum \u2014 has turned.<\/strong>\u00a0 The Danish royal family, which technically owned it and had loaned it to the museum, has agreed to return it.<\/a>
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It is the first S\u00e1mi drum to be repatriated from abroad and the only one in the collection . .\u00a0 .\u00a0 Now undergoing conservation, the drum will go on display as the centrepiece of a new exhibition on 12 April.<\/p>\n

The formal handover of the object is an event of huge significance, according to S\u00e1mi film-maker Silja Somby, who is making a film about rune drums<\/a> to be shown during the Venice Biennale in August. They are, she said, \u201clike bibles for us. Each has its own special meanings and symbolisms\u201d. . . .<\/p>\n

Rune drums were once a central aspect of their nature-based religious life. When a noaidi<\/em> struck a reindeer-skin and birchwood rune drum with a reindeer-antler hammer, a brass ring would move across its surface. Depending on how the ring moved in relation to the symbols on the drum (painted in a red dye made from alder resin), the noaidi<\/em> would divine future events. The drumming would also help the noaidi<\/em> enter a trance and travel in different realities, for example among the spirits of the dead.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the fall of 2021, S\u00e1mi((Also called Laplanders, who live in northern Norway, Sweden, Finland, and a bit of Russia)) people living in Norway asked the the queen of Denmark and the\u00a0 Danish National Museum if they could have one of their old-time shaman’s drum back. The drum belonged to a S\u00e1mi shaman, Anders Poulsson, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[156,419,387,175,249,11],"class_list":["post-12735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-denmark","tag-drum","tag-museums","tag-norway","tag-runes","tag-shamanism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6xQTg-12735","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":780,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=780","url_meta":{"origin":12735,"position":0},"title":"Shaman’s Drum’s new fundraising","author":"Chas S. 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