IDNO

LS.135834.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: Karesuando Lapp. 12.44
Karesuando Lapp Family.
Family of Ingerta Blind (2nd from right, rear row). Women and children only, as men were on the hills with reindeer. They are in Sunday clothes. Door of family turf hut behind.
Site: Njuorduspe, summer camp, near Abisko, of Karesuando family now living in Talma Lappby, ?Jakkasjanor parish.
Date 9 July 50
Photo R.N.H. Bulmer.

Place

Europe Scandinavia; Sweden; Abisko; Talma Lappby

Cultural Affliation

Sáami [historically Lapp]

Named Person

Ingerta Blind

Photographer

Bulmer, Ralph N.H.

Collector / Expedition

Cambridge University Undergraduate Fieldwork with Reindeer Same (Lapps) of Sweden and Norway, 1950 - 1951

Date

9 July 1950

Collection Name

Teaching Slide Collection

Source

Format

Lantern Slide Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Biographical Information: "Ralph Bulmer was a Cambridge-trained social anthropologist, naturalist and ethnobiologist who worked in the New Guinea highlands from 1954.
In 1949 Ralph finally arrived at Cambridge. He was planning to study zoology. But he found that because he hadn’t studied science at school ... His college advisor said, "how about anthropology – you don’t need any science for that." So Ralph signed up to study anthropology ...
During his undergraduate years, Ralph also went on two trips to study the Lapps/ Sami, the indigenous people of northern Scandinavia. One of his Cambridge tutors was Dr Ethel John Lindgren, a six-foot Swedish anthropologist (and probably also a spy). She was married to Mikel Utsi, a diminutive Lapp reindeer herder. Both Dr Lindgren and Mr Utsi were mentors for Ralph. I remember visiting them in Cambridge in 1973. Mr Utsi had a huge reindeer-skin Sami tent (rather like a tipi) erected in their suburban back garden.
After graduating from Cambridge, ... The next opportunity was a scholarship to do a PhD at the Australian National University, and to do research in New Guinea. So, in 1953 Ralph and Ellaine [Bruce, his wife] went off to the Antipodes. [Source: My father the giant
Written on December 9, 2016 by Alice in Ecology, Life and death, http://www.alicebulmer.com/my-father-the-giant/, JD 5/31/2017]