My Sami jewellery and two places where to find some of them...

Two traditional, the last one is modern --> plastic pearls.

This was put on top of children's beds - it keeps evil spirits away. Nowadays one can find this as earrings too, but they aren't genuine Sami jewellery :(

I wrote about this in my text about Benedict Cumberbatch :)

Love this. It's a bit different, because it has pearls. The "Kolta" Samis do these.

Details.

I do not know where one can buy the earrings and the necklace online. The Swedish Hanna Wallmark and Kero sell bracelets. Come to Finland, Sweden or Norway and buy this beautiful jewellery! (Does someone know if the Sami people in Russia make bigger business with their jewellery?)

Disney-leffassa saamelaisvaikutteita?

Tumblr osasi yllättää tänään - marraskuussa 2013 on tulossa uusi Disney-elokuva, jossa on ilmeisesti "uusi prinsessa". Kuvat kuitenkin tuli huomioitua, prinsessa Annan vaatteissa on selkeää skandinaavisuutta (ensimmäistä kertaa?) ja saamelaisuutta.

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Ainakin viimeisessä kuvassa näkyy saamelaisuus. Jää vielä nähtäväksi miten paljon muutetaan itse elokuvaan vaatteita ja yksityiskohtia.

Imdb:issä näytetään jo hahmojen nimiä: Anna, Olaf, Elsa ja Kristoff ovat päähenkilöitä. Skandinaavisia nekin, vaikkei ehkä täysin suomalaisia. Kristoff kuulostaa melkein venäläiseltä tai puolalaiselta? Olaf ja Elsa taas viittaavat länsinaapureihimme.

Jännittävää! Lopputulosta odotellessa saa tyytyä Hobittiin ja Star Trekiin.

Benedict Cumberbatch and the Sami bracelet

Benedict Cumberbatch is a really admireable person. He's so talented, such a great actor (the best) and still so humble and insecure. And he wonders why he has fans?

Well, now he got all my heart - I've never in my entire life seen a celebrity wearing SAMI JEWELLERY! My heart jumped when I saw these pics, it was a greater moment than watching the Star Trek Into Darkness-trailer.

The Sami people live in Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia. They are the only indigenous people in the European Union. They have their own culture, clothes, language, jewellery, food, lifestyle... The art of making Sami jewellery isn't an obvious fact in the world - the jewellery isn't sold in too many places and genuine ones (made by the Sami people) can be found only in some places. Here in Finland you can recognise the so called real Sami jewellery by a stamp - I don't know about the other countries.

So, Sami jewellery is quite rare, but nowadays a company called Hanna Wallmark sell these kind of jewellery in several countries. I would make a guess that Benedict's bracelet is Hanna Wallmark, unless he's been up to Jokkmokk ;) It's even possible to buy Hanna Wallmark online.

To make things even cooler, I have an almost identical bracelet that Benedict has! (Comparison, scroll down) I wear Sami jewellery every week, some of them has been in the family for decades, some are new with a modern twist. The one Benedict is wearing is traditional with reindeer skin, reindeer bone and either tin or silver details.

Benedict's bracelet above.

And this is my bracelet:

Appreciate this man and the beautiful handicraft by the Sami people :)

Sources for the three first pics:
http://snelaug.tumblr.com/post/37201460579/black-reindeer-leather-sami-bracelet-pewter-wire
http://cumberbuddy.tumblr.com/post/37180237134/bizarre-sugar-hq-benedict-cumberbatch