Group Of Lapps Laplanders Norway Antique 1894 Picture Old Print PP#GN

Description: Group Of Lapps Laplanders Norway 1894 Antique Print A print from a disbound book published in 1894. The reverse side has an unrelated picture. Suitable for framing, the average picture size is approx 10" x 8" or 25cm x 20cm Actual page including border and text is approx 12.75" x 10.5" or 32.5cm x 26.5cm This is an antique print not a modern copy or reproduction and can show signs of age or previous use commensurate with the age of the print. Please view any scans as they form part of the description. 1894 is the printing date, the original date of creation can be earlier. All pictures will be sent bagged and in a tube or Large Letter size box for protection in transit. While every care is taken to ensure my scans or photos accurately represent the item offered for sale, due to differences in monitors and internet pages my pictures may not be an exact match in brightness or contrast to the actual item. Text description beneath the picture (subject to any spelling errors due to the OCR program used) GROUP OF LAPPS, NORWAY.—Near the North Cape, on the northwestern coast of Norway, are settlements of Laplanders, frequently visited by travellers in their tour through the "Land of the Midnight Sun." One visit usually satisfies the tourist's curiosity. The Lapps are by no means beautiful, attractive Or cleanly. They are short in stature, the men being about five feet high, and the women four. They usually have high cheek bones, wizened faces, fiat.noses, and small almond-shaped eyes. They wear garments made of reindeer skin with the pelt turned outwards. These garments last indefinitely and are handed down from parents to children. The lower limbs of the Lapps are usually covered with bands of worsted wound about the ankles, and leggins of whale skin, which fit their forms almost as tightly as if they were their own skin. The Lapps live in miserable huts made of wood, turf and straw, and lined 'with reindeer hide. One of these will often contain two or three families. They sell to tourists bone knives, fur purses and other objects of their own manufacture. They are tough and hardy like most dwarfs, and Dickens could have found among them many models for his character of Quilp. They are great smokers, and, as their huts are also filled with smoke, they apparently become at last thoroughly smoke-dried within and without. This creates an ardent thirst, and they are in consequence very fond of intoxicating liquors. When a Norwegiaii wishes to remonstrate with a friend for drinking to excess, he will say to him: "Don't make a Lapp of yourself." Track Page Views With Auctiva's Counter

Price: 6.99 GBP

Location: DEREHAM

End Time: 2025-02-07T22:51:22.000Z

Shipping Cost: 16.05 GBP