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Photo Gallery: Arctic Studies Programme

Photographs taken by Francis Joy are from 2021 and 2022 of international students enrolled in the Arctic Studies Program undertaking fieldwork at a Sámi sacred site and visiting a local souvenir shop in order to learn about Sámi religion, spiritual traditions, beliefs, and practices, as well as attending a hands-on workshop to learn about the use of reindeer antler, bones, and skin as well as seal skin for making clothes, handicrafts and jewelry with.

A group of international students in the Arctic Studies program in 2021 presents their research from fieldwork undertaken concerning the use of Sámi cultural heritage in tourism in Lapland, at the University of Lapland, Rovaniemi.
Photo: Francis Joy

A meeting with Julia Hochwald at the Lauri House, Rovaniemi, who taught the students about how natural products including textiles, clothes, and jewellery are made by Sámi handcrafters on the Kola Peninsula, north-west Russia.
Photo: Francis Joy

A fieldwork visit where international students in November 2022 met Ari and Irene Kangasniemi who are local artists and handcrafters using reindeer antlers, bone, and skin to make natural products. On this fieldwork excursion, students learned how to make amulets.
Photo: Francis Joy

The group is together with Ari and Irene Kangasniemi wearing amulets they made using different kinds of natural materials, including reindeer antlers, bone, leather, and glass.
Photo: Francis Joy

Irene Kangasniemi teaches the students how clothes, boots, and other items are made from seal skin.
Photo: Francis Joy

As part of the education on the Arctic Studies Program, students are pictured on a fieldwork visit to Somosenkirkko (Church of Somosem), which is an ancient Sámi offering place located in Oikarainen which is 24km from Rovaniemi center. Today, the site is used by the Lutheran Church.
Photo: Francis Joy

Arctic Studies Program students in excursion.
Photo: Päivi Soppela.

Arctic Studies Program students doing handicrafts from reindeer materials.
Photo: Anna Stammler-Gossmann.