The Institutional Process of Repatriation of Indigenous Heritage: The Case of the Sami Drum Freavnantjahke gievrie

• Main Author: Opitz, Swantje
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: UiT Norges arktiske universitet 2023
• Subjects: repatriation; Sami cultural heritage; museums; colonization; decolonization; traditional knowledge; identity; gievrie; IND-3904; Freavnantjahke; sami
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10037/29732

This paper addresses the repatriation debate about the South Sami Freavnantjahke gievrie that was taken from its owner, the Sami Bendix Andersen Frennings Fjeld, in 1723 by the missionary Thomas von Westen. After the confiscation, the drum came to the Danish royal family and was gifted in 1757 to th...