Removing flesh and films from reindeer skins with electrival screwdriver with ball attachment

Dublin Core

Title

Removing flesh and films from reindeer skins with electrival screwdriver with ball attachment

Description

Electric screwdriver with a ball attachment to remove flesh and thin flesh films to prepare the reindeer skin for processing. Traditionally this has been done with different scraping tools.

Source

lofotenmap

Contributor

iain

Type

Intangible

Identifier

718

Alternative Title

Fjerning av kjøtt, fett og hinner på reinskinn med elektrisk skrutrekker med pusseball

Date Submitted

30/09/2025

Date Modified

13/10/2025

Extent

x x

Spatial Coverage

current,68.58486433925802,16.703929280812623;

Europeana

Europeana Data Provider

University of St Andrews

Europeana Type

TEXT

Intangible Item Type Metadata

Prim Media

1759

Context

Processing and tanning of animal skins

Field Worker

Robertsen, Kjersti

Knowledge

How much or little to process the reindeer skin for the wanted finished product.

Knowledge Transfer

Between people in families and duodji-societies/clubs

Practitioners

Duojárs/ duodji (Sámi handicrafts) practitioners, both male and female, all ages from youths to elderly.

Function

It is part of making the materials for the traditional Sámi crafts/duodji

Origins and change

The manual method of removing flesh from the skins are very old, but the method of using the electrical screwdriver method is newer.

Places

Sápmi

Technological Threats

Industrial production,Surge of new technologies

Weakened Practice

Aged practitioners,Diminishing participation,Diminishing youth interest,Halted transmission between generations

Loss Threats

Loss of cultural spaces,Loss of knowledge,Material shortage

Place Description

"Markasamisk"/ Sámi village

Place

Ramavuolle/Reinåsen, Tjeldsund, Troms, Norge

State of the practice

thriving

External ID

MN_CP_10

Citation

“Removing flesh and films from reindeer skins with electrival screwdriver with ball attachment,” VERAP, accessed April 2, 2026, https://culturality.museum/omeka/items/show/1760.

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