Negative:: Playing deer.

Kola Peninsula

1928

Glass

13 x 18

РЭМ 5738-84

Children in Saami families learned the basics of grown-up domestic activities from their early age. Playing deer was a form of such cognitive skills. Several rows of deer antlers are set out, as if for migration; children sit on children’s sleds and handle a khorei, i.e. a pole of suitable length. Children also practiced noosing “deer”, i.e. other children holding deer horns on their heads. Abstract by A.A. Zankovskaya