The Saami shaman drums: some reflexions from an archaelogical perspective
The Saami shaman drums from northern Scandinavia can be discussed from many different points of view. For an archaeologist there are other questions of interest than those which generally occupy the historian of religions. One important question is how old the known Saami drums are. The known drums...
| Published in: | Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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The Donner Institute
1991
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| Online Access: | https://journal.fi/scripta/article/view/67197 https://doi.org/10.30674/scripta.67197 |
| Summary: | The Saami shaman drums from northern Scandinavia can be discussed from many different points of view. For an archaeologist there are other questions of interest than those which generally occupy the historian of religions. One important question is how old the known Saami drums are. The known drums are as a rule assumed to be from the seventeenth or the eighteenth centuries, when most of them were collected. It has also been thought that, because of the materials they are made of, drums could not have been preserved any longer. Another perhaps more interesting question is how old the known types of Saami drums might be. When did they acquire their 'classical' form? What did the Viking Age Saami drums look like? |
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