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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Archeopteryx: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by yumadro: [qb] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Thereal: [qb] They could've been the original saami who looked differently than the people today called saami. [/qb][/QUOTE]Exactly. Original Saami people were black. Encyclopædia Britannica 1824 describes Laplanders (saami) having swarthy (black or brown) skin: [IMG]https://i.imgur.com/lFk3FcB.png[/IMG] The British Quarterly Review from 1845 says that Laplanders (Saami) are dark-complexioned. [/qb][/QUOTE]Norwegians, Swedes and Finlanders have interacted with Samis for centuries, thus already Othere in the 800s talks about his travels to Kola peninsula, the White Sea and beyond. Sami people have been depicted at least since Olaus Magnus [i]Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus[/i] from 1555, even if his depictions are to be taken with a grain of salt. In the 1600 Johannes Schefferus published a richly illustrated book called Lapponia which describes the Sami people and their lands. In the 1700s Carl von Linné met and described Sami people during his travel to Lapland. He desribed one thing that he found a bit peculiar, eventhough the face and hands seemed brown the rest of their bodies, who were not exposed to sun or smoke, were very white. During the 1700s Samis were also depicted by among others Per Hilleström. In the 1800s we have both paintings and photos. Common motifs in the depictions and descriptions are the reindeer, the sleighs (ackja) and other ethnographic details. Swarthiness or blackness are not held up as something typical, on the contrary, most paintings from Olaus Magnus until the 1900s show Samis as light skinned, not at all black. Also in the majority of old photos they are not black but rather light. Some are heavily tanned though, and in many photos, due to the photo technique at that time they appear darker than they really were. [IMG]https://svd.vgc.no/v2/images/b0f2f3dd-b05f-4d9b-b5d8-36761d38e348?fit=crop&format=jpeg&h=133&q=80&tight=true&upscale=true&w=200&s=e1abd45b6193bfc1014f2b8f1765045095427062[/IMG] Sami hunters as depicted in Olaus Magus Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus [IMG]https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSANFQV1MotBVGyGEeWpz5oJ5tDn9_AdsNm6g&usqp=CAU[/IMG] Samis in the 1600s, from [i]Laponia[/i] [IMG]https://dms-cf-04.dimu.org/image/022s8YzP1Pg4?dimension=250x250[/IMG] Tax collection among Samis, early 1700s [IMG]https://southsaamihistory.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/lapphetj.jpg[/IMG] Sami people in the 1700s, painting by Pehr Hilleström. [IMG]https://live.staticflickr.com/7210/6963738273_e60cc7f621_n.jpg[/IMG] Sami people from Norway, engraving from the 1800s [IMG]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/LarsJacobsenHaetta.jpg/250px-LarsJacobsenHaetta.jpg[/IMG] Sami in Norway 1882 [/QB][/QUOTE]
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