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Tana

 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;Lars Mathis Gaup;herder snow scooter;mountain plateau tundra
A herder - looking for his animals

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1996-01 Following the reindeers in a January winter day.
 
herder snow scooter;mountain plateau tundra;Lars Mathis Gaup;Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving
A reindeer herder

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1996-01 Following the reindeers in a January winter day.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;mountain plateau tundra;herder snow scooter
A reindeer herder in the last light of the day

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1996-01 Following the reindeers.
 
mountain plateau;snowscooter;snow scooter;Rastegaise;Norway;Finnmark
A reindeer herder is looking for his animals.

©Øyvind Ravna
Nina Afanasjeva in Nadym
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;Levajok;Levajok;Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving
Driving reindeers with sledges

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-04
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;Levajok
Driving reindeers with sledges

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-04
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;Levajok
Driving reindeers with sledges

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-04
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;Levajok
Driving with reindeers

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-04
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;Levajok
Driving with reindeers

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-04
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;Levajok
In the sledge

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-04
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;Levajok
In the slegde

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-04
 
reindeer herder;Norway;snow scooter;January sun
On the look-out for the heard/Guorralan várdát.

©Øyvind Ravna
A portrait of a baby boy made in Nelmin Nos, Nenets okrug
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;mountain plateau tundra
Reindeers at the winter pastures

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1999-02 The winter pastures consist of lichen, which is important for surviving the arctic winter.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;mountain plateau tundra;Nordkyn
Reindeers at the winter pastures

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1999-02 The winter pastures consist of lichen, which is important for surviving the arctic winter.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;Tana;mountain plateau tundra;Lars Mathis Gaup;Saami Sami reindeer herder Smuk siida Varanger
The first sun i January

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1996-01 A reindeer herder looking for his animals.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;mountain plateau tundra;herder snow scooter
The first sun in January

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1996-01 A hereder at the tundra.
 
Varanger

 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving
A beautiful reindeer

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-05 Every spring, the reindeers cross the mountain plateau of Varanger Peninsula on the way to the sea and the summer pastures.
 

A beautiful reindeer

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-05 Every spring, the reindeers cross the mountain plateau of Varanger Peninsula on the way to the sea and the summer pastures.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder Smuk siida Varanger;Arvo;Krampenes
A big reindeer oxen - shall we take him?

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1999-12 In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark in December.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger
A cold day at the coral

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-11 In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger;Smuk family siida Varanger;Krampenes
A cold early winterday

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-11 In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder Smuk siida Varanger;Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;herder snow scooter
A herder is looking for the reindeers

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1999-12 The daylight is just a red streak in the south in Desember
 
herder snow scooter;mountain plateau tundra;Saami Sami reindeer herder Smuk siida Varanger;Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving
A herder is looking for the reindeers

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1999-12 The daylight is just a red streak in the south in December.
 
herder snow scooter;Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;Saami Sami reindeer herder Smuk siida Varanger
A herder is looking for the reindeers

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1999-12 The daylight is just a red streak in the south in Desember
 
reindeer herder;Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral;Smuk family siida Varanger;reindeer herding;Varanger Peninsula
A huge reindeer ox

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1997-09 In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger
A huge reindeer ox in the coral

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1997-09 In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;Smuk family siida Varanger;mountain plateau tundra Finnmark Norway
A long, long crowd of animals on the move.

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 2001-05 In the beginning of May, the dark night has already left the arctic areas
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;Smuk family siida Varanger;mountain plateau tundra Finnmark Norway
A long, long crowd of animals on the move.

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 2001-05 A long, long crowd of animals on the move.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;mountain plateau tundra Finnmark Norway;Smuk family siida Varanger
A long, long crowd of reindeers on the move.

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 2001-05 A long, long crowd of reindeers on the move.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;Smuk family siida Varanger;mountain plateau tundra Finnmark Norway
A long, long crowd of reindeers on the move.

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 2001-05 A long, long crowd of reindeers on the move to the North.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;mountain plateau tundra Finnmark Norway;Smuk family siida Varanger
A long, long crowd of reindeers on the move.

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 2001-05 A long, long crowd of reindeers on the move.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;Saami Sami reindeer herder Smuk siida Varanger;mountain plateau tundra
A reindeer herder following the animals.

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1999-12 It has became dark on the tundra. And the reindeers need to be guarded.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger
A small brake before the next run

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-11 In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;Odd Erling Smuk;snowscooter snow scooter sami reindeer herder Finnmark
Accidents might happens in the early spring

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-05 At the Varanger tundra in May, the rivers often are open, and one has to be careful..
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger
Around in the coral

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-11 In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder Smuk siida Varanger;herder snow scooter;Odd Erling Smuk
Breaking away from the river

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-05 At the Varanger tundra in May, the rivers often are open, and one has to be careful..
 
snowscooter snow scooter sami reindeer herder Finnmark
Breaking away from the river

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-05 At the Varanger tundra in May, the rivers often are open, and one has to be careful..
 
river;sea;ocean;reindeer;Varanger;Sami;Norway
By the cooling sea wind.

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1990-11 Klemet Persen, an old experienced Sami snare trapper from the time when trapping was a way to survive.
 
coffee can fire
By the fire

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-05
 

By the fire

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-05
 

By the fire

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-05
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;mountain plateau tundra Finnmark Norway;Smuk family siida Varanger
Carefully leading the deers in right direction.

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 2001-05 A herder is carefully the fertile reindeers as the day turns to night.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;mountain plateau tundra Finnmark Norway;Smuk family siida Varanger
Carefully watching the moving deers.

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 2001-05 Odd Erling Smuk and Nillo Meirud are carefully watching the moving reindeers.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder Smuk siida Varanger;Krampenes
Catching a fat one?

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1999-12 In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger;Krampenes
Catching the reindeers

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1999-12 In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark in December. Choosing reindeers for the wintertime slathering.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder Smuk siida Varanger;Krampenes
Choosing reindeers for the wintertime slathering

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1999-12 In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark in December. Choosing reindeers for the wintertime slathering.
 
Ny side
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger;Iver Per Smuk Arvo
Choosing reindeers for the wintertime slathering

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1999-12 In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark in December. Choosing reindeers for the wintertime slathering.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger
Counting the reindeer caleves of the year

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1997-09 In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark
 
Varanger Peninsula;Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral;Smuk family siida Varanger;reindeer herding
Counting, which belongs to who?

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1997-09 Nils Andreas Smuk (Marrush Asllaga Niillas) (left) was a big reindeer owner in the Varanger area. He passed away in a accident in 1997.
 
mountain plateau;Odd Erling Smuk;Finnmark;Norway;snowscooter snow scooter
Crossing the Varanger mountain plateau.

©Øyvind Ravna
Nikolay Taiborey\\
 
snowscooter snow scooter sami reindeer herder Finnmark;Odd Erling Smuk
Crossing the Varanger mountain plateau.

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-05 At the Varanger tundra in May.
 
snowscooter snow scooter sami reindeer herder Finnmark;Odd Erling Smuk
Crossing the Varanger tundra

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-05 At the Varanger tundra in May.
 
snowscooter snow scooter sami reindeer herder Finnmark;Odd Erling Smuk
Crossing the Varanger tundra

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-05 At the Varanger tundra in May.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger
Deers in the coral

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1997-10 In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger;Smuk family siida Varanger;Krampenes
Dividing the reindeers, who shall live and who shall die?

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1999-12 In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger;Krampenes
Dividing the reindeers, who shall live and who shall die?

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1999-12 In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger;Krampenes
Dividing the reindeers, who shall live and who shall die?

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1999-12 In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark in December. Choosing reindeers for the wintertime slathering.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger
Father and son

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1997-09 Nils Andreas Smuk (Marrush Asllaga Niillas), was a big reindeer owner in the Varanger area. He passed away in a accident in 1997. Here he is learning the young generation how to set the property mark on the reindeeer calve.
 

Following the reindeers

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-05 A Sami reindeer herder on a snow scooter, dressed in traditional skin clothes, is following the reindeer herd. Every spring, the reindeer herders cross the mountain plateau of Varanger Peninsula together with their reindeers.
 
snowscooter snow scooter sami reindeer herder Finnmark;Sami traditional costume (pesk);Varanger Peninsula;Smuk family siida Varanger
Following the reindeers

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-05 A Sami reindeer herder on a snow scooter, dressed in traditional skin clothes, is following the reindeer herd. Every spring, the reindeer herders cross the mountain plateau of Varanger Peninsula together with their reindeers.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;mountain plateau tundra Finnmark Norway;Smuk family siida Varanger
Following the reindeers as the sun goes down

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 2001-05 Following the reindeers as the sun goes down. Will the female deer come to the place where they shall give birth in time? The picture is from the migration over the Varanger Penisula.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;mountain plateau tundra Finnmark Norway;Smuk family siida Varanger
Following the reindeers as the sun goes down

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 2001-05 Following the reindeers as the sun goes down. Will the female deer come to the place where they shall give birth in time? The picture is from the migration over the Varanger Penisula.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;mountain plateau tundra Finnmark Norway;Smuk family siida Varanger
Following the reindeers as the sun goes down

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 2001-05 Following the reindeers as the sun goes down. Will the female deer come to the place where they shall give birth in time? The picture is from the migration over the Varanger Penisula.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;mountain plateau tundra Finnmark Norway;Smuk family siida Varanger
Following the reindeers as the sun goes down

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 2001-05 The Smuk family has the biggest has the biggest reindeer herders in the Varanger Area. In beginning of May the reindeers migrate from the winter pasture on the south side of the Varanger fiord, to the Varanger Peninsula on the Northern side of Varanger fiord (the communities Båtsfjord, Nesseby, Vadsø, Vardø). The picture is from the migration over the Varanger Penisula.
 
mountain plateau tundra Finnmark Norway;snow scooter.;mountain plateau tundra;Smuk family siida Varanger;Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving
Following the reindeers to the North.

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 2001-05 The Smuk family is the biggest Saami (Sami) reindeer herders in the Varanger Area. In beginning of May the reindeers migrate from the winter pasture on the south side of the Varanger fiord, to the Varanger Peninsula on the Northern side of Varanger fiord (the communities Båtsfjord, Nesseby, Vadsø, Vardø).The picture is from the Varanger Penisula.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;snow scooter.;mountain plateau;Finnmark;Norway;snow scooter.
Following the reindeers.

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 2001-05 During the migration to the North, the herders carefully follow the reindeers. To day the snow scooters are an indispensable help for the Saami reindeer herders in North Norway.
 
mountain plateau tundra;Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;Smuk family siida Varanger;mountain plateau tundra Finnmark Norway
Going to the North.

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 2001-05 The natural instinct of the female reindeer tells her to go to the North, to the sea, where the pasture is better, to give life to the newborn calves. \\
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;Saami Sami reindeer herder Smuk siida Varanger;herder snow scooter
Guarding the reindeers with a snow scooter

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1999-12 The modern snow scooter is a indispensable helper for the reindeer herders.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;Saami Sami reindeer herder Smuk siida Varanger
Guarding the reindeers with a snow scooter

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1999-12 The modern snow scooter is a indispensable helper for the reindeer herders.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;Saami Sami reindeer herder Smuk siida Varanger;herder snow scooter
Guarding the reindeers with a snow scooter

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1999-12 The modern snow scooter is a indispensable helper for the reindeer herders.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;mountain plateau tundra;Saami Sami reindeer herder Smuk siida Varanger;herder snow scooter
Guarding the reindeers.

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1999-12 The modern snow scooter is a indispensable helper for the reindeer herders.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;Saami Sami reindeer herder Smuk siida Varanger;herder snow scooter;mountain plateau tundra
Guarding the reindeers.

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1999-12 The dark time is also the blue period. In the early winter days, the reindeers still are on the move to the inland, where the pastures consist of lichen, which is important for surviving the arctic winter.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger
Happy to catch his reindeer

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1997-10 In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger
Happy to catch his reindeer calve

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1997-10 In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger
Happyness

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1997-09 Nils Andreas Smuk (Marrush Asllaga Niillas), was a big reindeer owner in the Varanger area. He passed away in a accident in 1997.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger
Herders working in the coral of the Smuk siida on Krampenes

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1997-09 Nils Andreas Smuk (Marrush Asllaga Niillas) (right), was a big reindeer owner in the Varanger area. He passed away in a accident in 1997.
 
Ny side
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger
Herders working in the coral of the Smuk siida on Krampenes

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1997-09 In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger
Herders working in the coral of the Smuk siida on Krampenes

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1997-09 In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger
Herders working in the coral of the Smuk siida on Krampenes

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1997-09 In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger
Herders working in the coral of the Smuk siida on Krampenes

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1997-09 In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger
Herders working in the coral of the Smuk siida on Krampenes

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1997-09 In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger
Herders working in the coral of the Smuk siida on Krampenes

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1997-09 In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger
Herders working in the coral of the Smuk siida on Krampenes

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1997-09 Nils Andreas Smuk (Marrush Asllaga Niillas) (left), was a big reindeer owner in the Varanger area. He passed away in a accident in 1997.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;snowscooter snow scooter sami reindeer herder Finnmark;Smuk family siida Varanger
In April-May, the reindeers move to the summer pasture

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-05 Every spring, the reindeers cross the mountain plateau of Varanger Peninsula on the way to the sea and the summer pastures.
 
Varanger Peninsula;Smuk family siida Varanger;Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving
In April-May, the reindeers move to the summer pasture

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-05 Every spring, the reindeers cross the mountain plateau of Varanger Peninsula on the way to the sea and the summer pastures.
 
snowscooter snow scooter sami reindeer herder Finnmark;Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving
In April-May, the reindeers move to the summer pasture

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-05 Every spring, the reindeers cross the mountain plateau of Varanger Peninsula on the way to the sea and the summer pastures.
 
mountain plateau tundra Finnmark Norway;Smuk family siida Varanger;Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving
In May, the dark night has already left the arctic areas.

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 2001-05 In the beginning of May, the dark night has already left the arctic areas, and from the 20th of May de sun doesn't go down before July.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger;Krampenes
In the centre of the coral

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-11 In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral;Varanger Peninsula;Smuk family siida Varanger
In the coral

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1997-09 In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral;Varanger Peninsula;Smuk family siida Varanger
In the coral - dividing the reindeers

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1997-09 In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral;Smuk family siida Varanger;Varanger Peninsula
In the coral - looking for the reindeer calves of the year

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1997-09 In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral;Varanger Peninsula;Smuk family siida Varanger;Smuk siida
In the coral - looking for the reindeer calves of the year

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1997-09 In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral;Smuk family siida Varanger;Varanger Peninsula
In the coral - looking for the reindeer calves of the year

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1997-09 In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark
 
Varanger Peninsula;Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral;Smuk family siida Varanger;Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger
In the coral - looking for the reindeer calves of the year

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1997-09 In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral;Norway;Varanger Peninsula;Smuk family siida Varanger
In the coral - looking for the reindeer calves of the year

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1997-09 In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger
In the coral an early winter day

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-11 In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger
In the coral of the Smuk siida

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1997-09 In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger;Smuk family siida Varanger;Krampenes
In the coral of the Smuk siida

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1999-12 In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral;Smuk family siida Varanger;Varanger Peninsula
In the coral of the Smuk siida - dividing the reindeers

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1997-09 In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger;Smuk family siida Varanger;Krampenes
In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1999-12 Choosing reindeers for the wintertime slathering
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger;Krampenes
In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1999-12 Running reindeers
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger;Smuk family siida Varanger;Krampenes
In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-11 Taking the next group of animals inside the coral.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger;Smuk family siida Varanger;Krampenes
In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-11 Running around inside the coral - waiting for the destiny.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger;Smuk family siida Varanger;Krampenes
In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-11 Catching the right animal.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger;Smuk family siida Varanger;Krampenes
In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-11 Running around inside the coral - waiting for the destiny.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger;Smuk family siida Varanger;Krampenes
In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-11 One of the last sunny day before the arctic night.
 
Ny side
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger;Smuk family siida Varanger;Krampenes
In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-11 One of the last sunny day before the arctic night.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger;Smuk family siida Varanger;Krampenes
In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-11 Working in the coral in the short, cold November days.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger;Smuk family siida Varanger;Krampenes;Varanger Peninsula
In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-11 Working in the coral in the short, cold November days.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger;Smuk family siida Varanger;Krampenes
In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-11 Running around inside the coral - waiting for the destiny.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger;Smuk family siida Varanger;Krampenes
In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-11 One of the last sunny day before the arctic night.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger;Smuk family siida Varanger;Krampenes
In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-11 Working in the coral in the short, cold November days.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger;Smuk family siida Varanger;Krampenes
In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-11 Working in the coral in the short, cold November days.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger;Smuk family siida Varanger;Krampenes
In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-11 Working in the coral in the short, cold November days.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger;Smuk family siida Varanger;Krampenes
In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-11 Working in the coral in the short, cold November days.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger;Krampenes;Smuk family siida Varanger
In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-11 Running around inside the coral - waiting for the destiny.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger;Krampenes;Smuk family siida Varanger
In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-11 Taking the next group of animals inside the coral.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger;Smuk family siida Varanger;Krampenes
In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-11 Working in the coral in the short, cold November days.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger
In the coral of the Smuk siida on Krampenes

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1997-09 In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark
 
mountain plateau tundra;Norway;Finnmark;Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;Smuk family siida Varanger
In the daytime the snow starts to be soft in May.

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 2001-05 The reindeers on the move over the Varanger Peninsula.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger
In the Smuk coral at Krampenes, East Finnmark

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1997-09 In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger
In the Smuk coral at Krampenes, East Finnmark

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1997-09 In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark
 
Varanger Peninsula;Hamningberg;Norway;Smuk siida
Indigenous power/Fámolas fápmu.

©Øyvind Ravna
A Nenets shaman is sitting near the fire.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder Smuk siida Varanger;Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving
It has became dark on the tundra

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1999-12 And the reindeers need to be guarded.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;mountain plateau tundra;herder snow scooter;Saami Sami reindeer herder Smuk siida Varanger
It has became dark on the tundra

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1999-12 But the herders will allway find their way - as the reindeers
 
herder snow scooter;Saami Sami reindeer herder Smuk siida Varanger;Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving
It has became dark on the tundra

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1999-12 And the reindeers need to be garded
 
herder snow scooter;mountain plateau tundra;Saami Sami reindeer herder Smuk siida Varanger;Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving
It has became dark on the tundra

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1999-12 And the reindeers need to be guarded.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder Smuk siida Varanger;herder snow scooter;Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving
It has became dark on the tundra

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1999-12 Only a red stripe tell that there once was daylight.
 
herder snow scooter;mountain plateau tundra;Saami Sami reindeer herder Smuk siida Varanger;Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving
It has became dark on the tundra

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1999-12 And the reindeers need to be guarded.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;mountain plateau tundra;Saami Sami reindeer herder Smuk siida Varanger;herder snow scooter
It has became dark on the tundra

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1999-12 And the reindeers need to be guarded.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder Smuk siida Varanger;herder snow scooter;Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving
It has became dark on the tundra

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1999-12 Only a red stripe tell that there once was daylight.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;snow scooter;Saami Sami reindeer herder Smuk siida Varanger
It has became dark on the tundra

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1999-12 Only a red stripe tell that there once was daylight.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral;Varanger Peninsula;Smuk family siida Varanger
Iver Per Smuk - a reindeer owner in the Varanger area

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1997-09 In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral;Varanger Peninsula;Smuk family siida Varanger
Iver Per Smuk - a reindeer owner in the Varanger area

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1997-09 In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger;Aslaksen
Learning how to do it

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1997-10 In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger
Learning how to do it.

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1997-09 In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark
 
Ny side
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger
Looking at the work of the herders

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1997-09 Nils Andreas Smuk (Marrush Asllaga Niillas), was a big reindeer owner in the Varanger area. He passed away in a accident in 1997.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;Saami Sami reindeer herder Smuk siida Varanger
Looking for food in the cold winterday

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1999-12 In the early winter days, the reindeers still are on the move to the inland, where the pastures consist of lichen, which is important for surviving the arctic winter.
 
snowscooter snow scooter sami reindeer herder Finnmark;Sami traditional costume (pesk);Odd Erling Smuk;Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving
Looking for the deers

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-05 On the Varanger tundra
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;mountain plateau tundra Finnmark Norway;Smuk family siida Varanger
Looking for the deers.

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 2001-05 Looking for the reindeers. Will the female deer come to the place where they shall give birth in time?
 
Smuk family siida Varanger;Varanger Peninsula;reindeer herder;Norway;reindeer herding;Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving
Looking for the reindeer caleves of the year

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1997-09 In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral;Smuk family siida Varanger
Looking for the reindeer calves of the year

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1997-09 Nils Andreas Smuk (Marrush Asllaga Niillas), was a big reindeer owner in the Varanger area. He passed away in a accident in 1997.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral;Smuk family siida Varanger
Looking for the reindeer calves of the year

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1997-09 Nils Andreas Smuk (Marrush Asllaga Niillas), was a big reindeer owner in the Varanger area. He passed away in a accident in 1997.
 
reindeer herder;Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral;Smuk family siida Varanger
Looking for the reindeer calves of the year

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1997-09 Nils Andreas Smuk (Marrush Asllaga Niillas), was a big reindeer owner in the Varanger area. He passed away in a accident in 1997.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral;Smuk family siida Varanger
Looking for the reindeer calves of the year

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1997-09 Nils Andreas Smuk (Marrush Asllaga Niillas) (right), was a big reindeer owner in the Varanger area. He passed away in a accident in 1997.
 
snowscooter snow scooter sami reindeer herder Finnmark;Sami traditional costume (kofte) Karasjok;Odd Erling Smuk
Looking for the reindeers

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-05 A Sami reindeer herder, dressed in traditional skin clothes, is looking for his reindeers. Every spring, the reindeer herders cross the mountain plateau of Varanger Peninsula together with their reindeers.
 
snowscooter snow scooter sami reindeer herder Finnmark;Odd Erling Smuk;Sami traditional costume (pesk)
Looking for the reindeers

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-05 A Sami reindeer herder on a snow scooter, dressed in traditional skin clothes, is following the reindeer herd. Every spring, the reindeer herders cross the mountain plateau of Varanger Peninsula together with their reindeers.
 
Sami traditional costume (pesk);Odd Erling Smuk;snowscooter snow scooter sami reindeer herder Finnmark
Looking for the reindeers

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-05 A Sami reindeer herder on a snow scooter, dressed in traditional skin clothes, is following the reindeer herd. Every spring, the reindeer herders cross the mountain plateau of Varanger Peninsula together with their reindeers.
 
snowscooter snow scooter sami reindeer herder Finnmark;Odd Erling Smuk;mountain plateau tundra;mountain plateau tundra Finnmark Norway
Looking for the reindeers

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-05 A Sami reindeer herder, dressed in traditional skin clothes, is following the reindeer herd. Every spring, the reindeer herders cross the mountain plateau of Varanger Peninsula together with their reindeers.
 
snowscooter snow scooter sami reindeer herder Finnmark;Odd Erling Smuk
Looking for the reindeers

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-05 A Sami reindeer herder, dressed in traditional skin clothes, is following the reindeer herd. Every spring, the reindeer herders cross the mountain plateau of Varanger Peninsula together with their reindeers.
 
snowscooter snow scooter sami reindeer herder Finnmark;Sami traditional costume (pesk);Odd Erling Smuk
Looking for the reindeers

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-05 A Sami reindeer herder, dressed in traditional skin clothes, is following the reindeer herd. Every spring, the reindeer herders cross the mountain plateau of Varanger Peninsula together with their reindeers.
 
snowscooter snow scooter sami reindeer herder Finnmark;Sami traditional costume (pesk);Odd Erling Smuk
Looking for the reindeers

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-05 A Sami reindeer herder, dressed in traditional skin clothes, is looking for his reindeers. Every spring, the reindeer herders cross the mountain plateau of Varanger Peninsula together with their reindeers.
 
snowscooter snow scooter sami reindeer herder Finnmark;Odd Erling Smuk;Sami traditional costume (pesk)
Looking for the reindeers

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-05 A Sami reindeer herder, dressed in traditional skin clothes, is looking for his reindeers. Every spring, the reindeer herders cross the mountain plateau of Varanger Peninsula together with their reindeers.
 
snowscooter snow scooter sami reindeer herder Finnmark;Odd Erling Smuk;Sami traditional costume (pesk)
Looking for the reindeers

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-05 A Sami reindeer herder, dressed in traditional skin clothes, is looking for his reindeers. Every spring, the reindeer herders cross the mountain plateau of Varanger Peninsula together with their reindeers.
 
snowscooter snow scooter sami reindeer herder Finnmark;Odd Erling Smuk;Thomaselv;Vadsø;Sami traditional costume (pesk)
Looking for the reindeers

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-04 A Sami reindeer herder, dressed in traditional skin clothes, is following the reindeer herd. Every spring, the reindeer herders cross the mountain plateau of Varanger Peninsula together with their reindeers.
 
snowscooter snow scooter sami reindeer herder Finnmark;Thomaselv;Odd Erling Smuk;Sami traditional costume (pesk)
Looking for the reindeers

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-05 A Sami reindeer herder, dressed in traditional skin clothes, is following the reindeer herd. Every spring, the reindeer herders cross the mountain plateau of Varanger Peninsula together with their reindeers.
 
Thomaselv;Sami traditional costume (pesk);snowscooter snow scooter sami reindeer herder Finnmark;Odd Erling Smuk
Looking for the reindeers

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-05 A Sami reindeer herder, dressed in traditional skin clothes, is following the reindeer herd. Every spring, the reindeer herders cross the mountain plateau of Varanger Peninsula together with their reindeers.
 
snowscooter snow scooter sami reindeer herder Finnmark;Odd Erling Smuk;Sami traditional costume (pesk)
Looking for the reindeers

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-05 A Sami reindeer herder on a snow scooter, dressed in traditional skin clothes, is following the reindeer herd. Every spring, the reindeer herders cross the mountain plateau of Varanger Peninsula together with their reindeers.
 
Finnmark;Odd Erling Smuk;Thomaselv;Vadsø;Vadsoe;Varanger;Norway;mountain plateau;snowscooter snow scooter
Looking for the reindeers.

©Øyvind Ravna
Portrait of small Nenets girl.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger;Nils Andreas Smuk
Marking a white reindeer calve

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1997-09 In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger;Sami traditional costume (kofte) Karasjok
Marking deers in the coral at Krampenes, East Finnmark

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1997-10 A Sami boy in a traditional dress is not so often seen in the coral anymore - but here is one.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger;Sami traditional costume (kofte) Varanger
Marking reindeers - in a traditional Sami costume

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1997-10 A Sami boy in a traditional dress is not so often seen in the coral anymore - but here is one.
 
Nils Andreas Smuk;Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger
Marking reindeers in the coral

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1997-09 In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger;property
Marking the reindeer calves

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1997-09 In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger
Marking the reindeer calves

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1997-09 Nils Andreas Smuk (Marrush Asllaga Niillas), was a big reindeer owner in the Varanger area. He passed away in a accident in 1997. Here he is learning the young generation (his son) how to set the property mark on the reindeeer calve.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger;Property mark;Property mark
Marking the reindeer calves

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1997-09 In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark.
 
Ny side
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger
Marrush Asllaga Niillas

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1997-09 Nils Andreas Smuk (Marrush Asllaga Niillas), was a big reindeer owner in the Varanger area. He passed away in a accident in 1997. Peace over his memory.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger
Marrush Asllaga Niillas

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1997-09 Nils Andreas Smuk (Marrush Asllaga Niillas), was a big reindeer owner in the Varanger area. He passed away in a accident in 1997. Peace over his memory.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger
Marrush Asllaga Niillas

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1997-09 Nils Andreas Smuk (Marrush Asllaga Niillas), was a big reindeer owner in the Varanger area. He passed away in a accident in 1997. Peace over his memory.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger
Marrush Asllaga Niillas and his son

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1997-09 Nils Andreas Smuk (Marrush Asllaga Niillas), was a big reindeer owner in the Varanger area. He passed away in a accident in 1997.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;Saami Sami reindeer herder Smuk siida Varanger
Moving - allways moving

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1999-12 Reindeers on the Varanger tundra in the wintertime
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger
Moving - like waves on a ocean

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-11 In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;mountain plateau tundra Finnmark Norway;Smuk family siida Varanger
Moving in the late evening time.

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 2001-05 In the beginning of May, the dark night has already left the arctic areas, and from the 20th of May de sun doesn't go down before July.
 
Smuk family siida Varanger;Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;mountain plateau;Finnmark;Norway
Moving reindeers.

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 2001-05 Reindeer on the way to the summer pasture by the coast of the Varanger Peninsula.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;mountain plateau tundra Finnmark Norway;Smuk family siida Varanger
Nillo and Ragnar have a lunch brake during the migration.

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 2001-05 Nils Meirud and Ragnar Smuk have a short brake in the middle of the day during the work to follow the reindeers to the summer pasture.
 
mountain plateau tundra;mountain plateau tundra Finnmark Norway;Smuk family siida Varanger;Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving
Nillo and Ragnar have a lunch brake during the migration.

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 2001-05 Nils Meirud and Ragnar Smuk have a short brake in the middle of the day during the work to follow the reindeers to the summer pasture.
 
mountain plateau tundra Finnmark Norway;Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;Smuk family siida Varanger
Nillo and Ragnar have a lunch brake during the migration.

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 2001-05 Nils Meirud and Ragnar Smuk have a short brake in the middle of the day during the work to follow the reindeers to the summer pasture.
 
mountain plateau tundra Finnmark Norway;Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;Smuk family siida Varanger
Nillo and Ragnar have a lunch brake during the migration.

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 2001-05 Nils Meirud and Ragnar Smuk have a short brake in the middle of the day during the work to follow the reindeers to the summer pasture.
 
mountain plateau tundra Finnmark Norway;Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;Smuk family siida Varanger
Nillo and Ragnar have a lunch brake during the migration.

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 2001-05 Nils Meirud and Ragnar Smuk have a short brake in the middle of the day during the work to follow the reindeers to the summer pasture.
 
mountain plateau tundra Finnmark Norway;Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;Smuk family siida Varanger
Nillo and Ragnar have a lunch brake during the migration.

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 2001-05 Nils Meirud and Ragnar Smuk have a short brake in the middle of the day during the work to follow the reindeers to the summer pasture.
 
mountain plateau tundra Finnmark Norway;Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;Smuk family siida Varanger
Nillo and Ragnar have a lunch brake during the migration.

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 2001-05 Nils Meirud and Ragnar Smuk have a short brake in the middle of the day during the work to follow the reindeers to the summer pasture.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger
Nils Andreas Smuk - Marrush Asllaga Niillas

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1997-09 Nils Andreas Smuk (Marrush Asllaga Niillas), was a big reindeer owner in the Varanger area. He passed away in a accident in 1997.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger
Nils Andreas Smuk and Marit Smuk Solbakk

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1997-09 Nils Andreas Smuk (Marrush Asllaga Niillas), was a big reindeer owner in the Varanger area. He passed away in a accident in 1997.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;mountain plateau tundra Finnmark Norway;Smuk family siida Varanger
Odd Erling Smuk has a rest on his Ski-doo Snowmobile.

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 2001-05 To day the snow scooters are an indispensable help for the Saami reindeer herders in North Norway.
 

Odd Erling Smuk, a big reindeer owner, following his deers

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-05 A Sami reindeer herder on a snow scooter, dressed in traditional skin clothes, is following the reindeer herd. Every spring, the reindeer herders cross the mountain plateau of Varanger Peninsula together with their reindeers.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;snowscooter snow scooter sami reindeer herder Finnmark
Odd Erling Smuk, following his reindeers

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-05 At the Varanger tundra in May.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;snowscooter snow scooter sami reindeer herder Finnmark
Odd Erling Smuk, following his reindeers

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-05 At the Varanger tundra in May.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;snowscooter snow scooter sami reindeer herder Finnmark;Odd Erling Smuk
Odd Erling Smuk, following his reindeers

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-05 At the Varanger tundra in May.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder Smuk siida Varanger
Ole Viktor og Máret Inga

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-07 Fishing in the mountains.\\
 

Ole Viktor og Piera

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-07 Fishing in a mountain lake
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;mountain plateau tundra Finnmark Norway;Smuk family siida Varanger
On a long line.

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 2001-05 On a long line the reindeer is moving over Varanger Peninsula.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;Varanger Peninsula
On a long, long cue

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1999-12 "Reindeers moving on the ""blue"" snow. The dark time is also the blue period"
 
herder snow scooter;Saami Sami reindeer herder Smuk siida Varanger;Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving
On the huge tundra

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-05
 
Varanger Peninsula;Smuk family siida Varanger;Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving
On the long way to the coast

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-05 Every spring, the reindeers cross the mountain plateau of Varanger Peninsula on the way to the sea and the summer pastures.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;Smuk family siida Varanger;Varanger Peninsula
On the long way to the coast

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-05 The female reindeers are going the long way to the coast, to find a place to give birth to the next generations.
 
Thomaselv;Smuk family siida Varanger;landscape;Varanger Peninsula;Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;Vadsø
On the long way to the coast

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-05 The female reindeers are going the long way to the coast, to find a place to give birth to the next generations.
 
Ny side
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;mountain plateau tundra Finnmark Norway;Smuk family siida Varanger
On the move in the late evening.

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 2001-05 In the beginning of May, the dark night has already left the arctic areas, and from the 20th of May de sun doesn't go down before July.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;Odd Erling Smuk;Varanger Peninsula
On the tundra, following the reindeers

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-05
 
Odd Erling Smuk;Saami Sami reindeer herder Smuk siida Varanger;herder snow scooter
On the tundra, following the reindeers

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-05
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;Odd Erling Smuk;snowscooter snow scooter sami reindeer herder Finnmark
On the tundra, following the reindeers

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-05
 
Odd Erling Smuk;snowscooter snow scooter sami reindeer herder Finnmark;Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving
On the tundra, following the reindeers

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-05
 
Odd Erling Smuk;Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;snowscooter snow scooter sami reindeer herder Finnmark
On the tundra, following the reindeers

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-05
 
herder snow scooter;Smuk family siida Varanger;Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;Saami Sami reindeer herder Smuk siida Varanger
On the Varanger tundra in the dark arctic night

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1999-12 The reindeers will allway find their way.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;Saami Sami reindeer herder Smuk siida Varanger;herder snow scooter
On the Varanger tundra in the dark arctic night

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1999-12 In the early winter days, the reindeers still are on the move to the inland, where the pastures consist of lichen, which is important for surviving the arctic winter.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;mountain plateau tundra;Saami Sami reindeer herder Smuk siida Varanger;herder snow scooter
On the Varanger tundra in the dark arctic night

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1999-12 In the early winter days, the reindeers still are on the move to the inland, where the pastures consist of lichen, which is important for surviving the arctic winter.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;Smuk family siida Varanger;Varanger Peninsula
On the way

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-05 At the Varanger tundra in May.
 
snowscooter snow scooter sami reindeer herder Finnmark;Sami traditional costume (pesk);Odd Erling Smuk
On the way

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-05 A Sami reindeer herder, dressed in traditional skin clothes, is following the reindeer herd. Every spring, the reindeer herders cross the mountain plateau of Varanger Peninsula together with their reindeers.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving
On the way to the coast

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-05 Every spring, the reindeers cross the mountain plateau of Varanger Peninsula on the way to the sea and the summer pastures.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;Smuk family siida Varanger;Thomaselv;Vadsø
On the way to the North

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-05 Every spring, the reindeers cross the mountain plateau of Varanger Peninsula on the way to the sea and the summer pastures.
 
mountain plateau tundra;Smuk family siida Varanger;Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;Finnmark;Norway
On the way to the reindeers.

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 2001-05 Odd Erling Smuk on the way to the reindeers.
 
Vadsø;Thomaselv
On the way to the summer land

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-05 Every spring, the reindeers cross the mountain plateau of Varanger Peninsula on the way to the sea and the summer pastures.
 
Smuk family siida Varanger;Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;mountain plateau;Finnmark;mountain plateau tundra
On the way to the summer pasture.

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 2001-05 Reindeer on the way to the summer pasture by the coast of the Varanger Peninsula.
 
snowscooter snow scooter sami reindeer herder Finnmark;Varanger Peninsula;Jack Sture Motka;herder snow scooter
On the way to the tundra

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-05
 
snowscooter snow scooter sami reindeer herder Finnmark;Varanger Peninsula;herder snow scooter;Jack Sture Motka
On the way to the tundra

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-05
 
mountain plateau tundra;Smuk family siida Varanger
One has to be careful in the springtime

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-05 At the Varanger tundra in May, the rivers often are open, and one has to be careful..
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;Smuk family siida Varanger;mountain plateau tundra Finnmark Norway
Over the Varanger tundra with a speedy snowscooter.

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 2001-05 To day the snow scooters are an indispensable help for the Saami reindeer herders in North Norway.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;mountain plateau tundra Finnmark Norway;Smuk family siida Varanger
Over the Varanger tundra with a speedy snowscooter.

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 2001-05 To day the snow scooters are an indispensable help for the Saami reindeer herders in North Norway.
 
Skriv inn søkeord
Oyvind Ravna

©Øyvind Ravna
A portrait of Oyvind Ravna
 
Norway;Reindeer;Varanger;Sami
Powerful reindeer oxes.

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1990-12 The fence of the snare trap is build by birch twig. In a small gate is the snare made of brass wire placed.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger
Proparty marking the reindeer calves

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1997-09 Nils Andreas Smuk (Marrush Asllaga Niillas), was a big reindeer owner in the Varanger area. He passed away in a accident in 1997. Here he is learning the young generation how to set the property mark on the reindeeer calve.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger
Proparty marking the reindeer calves

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1997-09 Nils Andreas Smuk (Marrush Asllaga Niillas), was a big reindeer owner in the Varanger area. He passed away in a accident in 1997. Here he is learning the young generation how to set the property mark on the reindeer calve.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger;Nils Andreas Smuk;Nils Andrea Smuk
Property marking the reindeer calves

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1997-09 In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger;Nils Andreas Smuk
Property marking the reindeers

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1997-09 In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark
 
Nils Andreas Smuk;Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger
Property marking the reindeers

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1997-09 In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark
 
mountain plateau tundra;Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;Smuk family siida Varanger;mountain plateau tundra Finnmark Norway
Ragnar Smuk is looking at the crowd.

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 2001-05 Ragnar Smuk and his dog.
 
mountain plateau tundra;snow scooter.;Norway;Finnmark;Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;Smuk family siida Varanger
Ragnar Smuk is looking at the deers.

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 2001-05 An experenced reindeer herder, the oldest of the siida, Ragnar Smuk
 
Ny side
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;Smuk family siida Varanger;mountain plateau tundra Finnmark Norway
Ragnar Smuk is watching the long crowd of reindeer

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 2001-05 The reindeer owner Ragnar Smuk is watching the long crowd of reindeer as the day turns to night.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;mountain plateau tundra Finnmark Norway;Smuk family siida Varanger
Ragnar Smuk is watching the long crowd of reindeer.

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 2001-05 The reindeer owner Ragnar Smuk is watching the long crowd of reindeer as the day turns to night.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;mountain plateau tundra Finnmark Norway;Smuk family siida Varanger;snow scooter.
Ragnar Smuk looking for the reindeers.

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 2001-05 Ragnar Smuk and his dog on the snow scooter. To day the snow scooters are an indispensable help for the Saami reindeer herders in North Norway.
 
mountain plateau tundra;Smuk family siida Varanger;Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;Finnmark;Norway;snow scooter.
Ragnar Smuk with his dog.

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 2001-05 An experenced reindeer herder, the oldest of the siida, Ragnar Smuk, is sitting on the snoe scooter. To day the snow scooters are an indispensable help for the Saami reindeer herders in North Norway.
 
mountain plateau tundra;Norway;Finnmark;Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;Smuk family siida Varanger;snow scooter.
Ragnar Smuk with his dog.

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 2001-05 An experenced reindeer herder, the oldest of the siida, Ragnar Smuk on his scooter. To day the snow scooters are an indispensable help for the Saami reindeer herders in North Norway.
 
mountain plateau tundra;Smuk family siida Varanger;Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;Finnmark;Norway;snow scooter.
Ragnar Smuk with his dog.

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 2001-05 An experenced reindeer herder, the oldest of the siida, Ragnar Smuk on his scooter. To day the snow scooters are an indispensable help for the Saami reindeer herders in North Norway.
 
mountain plateau tundra;snow scooter.;Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;Smuk family siida Varanger
Ragnar Smuk with his dog.

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 2001-05 An experenced reindeer herder, the oldest of the siida, Ragnar Smuk
 
mountain plateau tundra;Smuk family siida Varanger;Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;Finnmark;Norway
Ragnar Smuk.

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 2001-05 An experenced reindeer herder and owner, the oldest of the Smuk siida, Ragnar Smuk
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger
Reindeer in the coral

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1997-09 In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger
Reindeer in the coral

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1997-09 In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;snow scooter.;Smuk family siida Varanger;mountain plateau tundra;mountain plateau tundra Finnmark Norway
Reindeer migration in the spring time.

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 2001-05 The Smuk family is the biggest Saami (Sami) reindeer herders in the Varanger Area. In beginning of May the reindeers migrate from the winter pasture on the south side of the Varanger fiord, to the Varanger Peninsula on the Northern side of Varanger fiord (the communities Båtsfjord, Nesseby, Vadsø, Vardø).The picture is from the Varanger Penisula.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;Smuk family siida Varanger;mountain plateau tundra Finnmark Norway
Reindeer moving over the huge mountain plateau.

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 2001-05 The spring time migration.
 
mountain plateau tundra;Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;Smuk family siida Varanger;mountain plateau tundra Finnmark Norway
Reindeer on the migration to the summer pasture.

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 2001-05 The natural instinct of the female reindeer tells her to go to the North, to the sea, where the pasture is better, to give life to the newborn calves. The picture is from Varanger Peninsula.\\
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;mountain plateau tundra Finnmark Norway;Smuk family siida Varanger
Reindeer on the move over Varanger Peninsula.

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 2001-05 Reindeer on the move over Varanger Peninsula.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;mountain plateau tundra Finnmark Norway;Smuk family siida Varanger
Reindeer on the move over Varanger Peninsula.

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 2001-05 Reindeer on the move over Varanger Peninsula.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;Saami Sami reindeer herder Smuk siida Varanger
Reindeer outside Hamningberg

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1996-07 On the summer grazing land.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger
Reindeers

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-11 In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger
Reindeers

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-11 In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;Saami Sami reindeer herder Smuk siida Varanger
Reindeers - allway on the way

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1999-12 In the early winter days, the reindeers still are on the move to the inland, where the pastures consist of lichen, which is important for surviving the arctic winter.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;Saami Sami reindeer herder Smuk siida Varanger
Reindeers - allway on the way

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1999-12 In the early winter days, the reindeers still are on the move to the inland, where the pastures consist of lichen, which is important for surviving the arctic winter.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;mountain plateau tundra;Saami Sami reindeer herder Smuk siida Varanger
Reindeers - allway on the way

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1999-12 The daylight is just a red streak in the south in December.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;mountain plateau tundra;herder snow scooter;Saami Sami reindeer herder Smuk siida Varanger
Reindeers - far away one can see the herder

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1999-12 The reindeers will allway find their way.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;Saami Sami reindeer herder Smuk siida Varanger
Reindeers crossing the road near Hamningberg.

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1996-07 On the summer grazing land.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;Smuk family siida Varanger
Reindeers in a long, long cue

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-05
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger;Smuk family siida Varanger;Krampenes
Reindeers in the coral

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-11 Running around inside the coral - waiting for the destiny.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger;Krampenes
Reindeers in the coral

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1999-12 In December, the calves have became bigger
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;mountain plateau tundra;Saami Sami reindeer herder Smuk siida Varanger
Reindeers moving on the "blue" snow

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1999-12 The dark time is also the blue period
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;Varanger Peninsula;mountain plateau tundra;Saami Sami reindeer herder Smuk siida Varanger
Reindeers moving on the "blue" snow

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1999-12 The dark time is also the blue period. In the early winter days, the reindeers still are on the move to the inland, where the pastures consist of lichen, which is important for surviving the arctic winter.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;Varanger Peninsula;mountain plateau tundra;Saami Sami reindeer herder Smuk siida Varanger
Reindeers moving on the "blue" snow

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1999-12 The dark time is also the blue period.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;Saami Sami reindeer herder Smuk siida Varanger
Reindeers om the Varanger tundra

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1999-12 The daylight is just a red streak in the south in Desember
 
Ny side
 

Reindeers on the annual migration

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-05 The female reindeers are going the long way to the coast, to find a place to give birth to the next generations.
 
Thomaselv;Vadsø;Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;Smuk family siida Varanger
Reindeers on the annual migration

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-05 Every spring, the reindeers cross the mountain plateau of Varanger Peninsula on the way to the sea and the summer pastures.
 

Reindeers on the annual migration

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-05 The female reindeers are going the long way to the coast, to find a place to give birth to the next generations.
 

Reindeers on the annual migration

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-05 The female reindeers are going the long way to the coast, to find a place to give birth to the next generations.
 

Reindeers on the annual migration

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-05 The female reindeers are going the long way to the coast, to find a place to give birth to the next generations.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger;Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;Smuk family siida Varanger
Reindeers on the annual migration

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-05 Every spring, the reindeers cross the mountain plateau of Varanger Peninsula on the way to the sea and the summer pastures.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;mountain plateau tundra;Saami Sami reindeer herder Smuk siida Varanger
Reindeers on the move - in a long, long cue

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1999-12 In the early winter days, the reindeers still are on the move to the inland, where the pastures consist of lichen, which is important for surviving the arctic winter.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder Smuk siida Varanger;Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving
Reindeers on the move - in a long, long cue

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1999-12 The reindeers will allway find their way.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;mountain plateau tundra;Saami Sami reindeer herder Smuk siida Varanger
Reindeers on the move - in a long, long cue

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1999-12 The reindeers will allway find their way.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;mountain plateau tundra;Saami Sami reindeer herder Smuk siida Varanger
Reindeers on the move - in a long, long cue

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1999-12 The reindeers will allway find their way.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;mountain plateau tundra;Saami Sami reindeer herder Smuk siida Varanger
Reindeers on the move - in a long, long cue

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1999-12 The reindeers will allway find their way. In the early winter days, the reindeers still are on the move to the inland, where the pastures consist of lichen, which is important for surviving the arctic winter.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;mountain plateau tundra Finnmark Norway;Smuk family siida Varanger
Reindeers on the move as the sun goes down

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 2001-05 The Smuk family has the biggest has the biggest reindeer herders in the Varanger Area. In beginning of May the reindeers migrate from the winter pasture on the south side of the Varanger fiord, to the Varanger Peninsula on the Northern side of Varanger fiord (the communities Båtsfjord, Nesseby, Vadsø, Vardø). The picture is from the migration over the Varanger Penisula.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder Smuk siida Varanger;Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving
Reindeers on the Varanger tundra in Desember

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1999-12 In the early winter days, the reindeers still are on the move to the inland, where the pastures consist of lichen, which is important for surviving the arctic winter.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;Saami Sami reindeer herder Smuk siida Varanger
Reindeers on the Varanger tundra in Desember

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1999-12 In the early winter days, the reindeers still are on the move to the inland, where the pastures consist of lichen, which is important for surviving the arctic winter.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;Saami Sami reindeer herder Smuk siida Varanger;mountain plateau tundra
Reindeers on the Varanger tundra in the dark period

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1999-12 In the early winter days, the reindeers still are on the move to the inland, where the pastures consist of lichen, which is important for surviving the arctic winter.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;Saami Sami reindeer herder Smuk siida Varanger;mountain plateau tundra
Reindeers on the Varanger tundra in the dark period

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1999-12 In the early winter days, the reindeers still are on the move to the inland, where the pastures consist of lichen, which is important for surviving the arctic winter.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger;mountain plateau tundra
Reindeers on the Varanger tundra in the dark period

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1999-12 In the early winter days, the reindeers still are on the move to the inland, where the pastures consist of lichen, which is important for surviving the arctic winter.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;mountain plateau tundra;Varanger Peninsula;Saami Sami reindeer herder Smuk siida Varanger
Reindeers on the Varanger tundra in the dark period

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1999-12 The daylight is just a red streak in the south in December - around it, there is just blue...
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder Smuk siida Varanger;mountain plateau tundra;Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;mountain plateau tundra
Reindeers on the Varanger tundra in the dark period

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1999-12 In the early winter days, the reindeers still are on the move to the inland, where the pastures consist of lichen, which is important for surviving the arctic winter.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;mountain plateau tundra;Saami Sami reindeer herder Smuk siida Varanger
Reindeers on the Varanger tundra in the dark period

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1999-12 In the early winter days, the reindeers still are on the move to the inland, where the pastures consist of lichen, which is important for surviving the arctic winter.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;mountain plateau tundra;mountain plateau tundra;Saami Sami reindeer herder Smuk siida Varanger
Reindeers on the Varanger tundra in the dark period

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1999-12 The daylight is just a red streak in the south in December.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;Saami Sami reindeer herder Smuk siida Varanger;mountain plateau tundra
Reindeers on the Varanger tundra in the dark period

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1999-12 In the early winter days, the reindeers still are on the move to the inland, where the pastures consist of lichen, which is important for surviving the arctic winter.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder Smuk siida Varanger;Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving
Reindeers on the Varanger tundra in the wintertime

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1999-12 Reindeers on the Varanger tundra in the wintertime
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;Saami Sami reindeer herder Smuk siida Varanger
Reindeers on the Varanger tundra in the wintertime

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1999-12 In the early winter days, the reindeers still are on the move to the inland, where the pastures consist of lichen, which is important for surviving the arctic winter.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder Smuk siida Varanger;Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving
Reindeers on the Varanger tundra in the wintertime

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1999-12 Reindeers on the Varanger tundra in the wintertime
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder Smuk siida Varanger;Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;mountain plateau tundra
Reindeers on the way

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1999-12 The dark time is also the blue period. In the early winter days, the reindeers still are on the move to the inland, where the pastures consist of lichen, which is important for surviving the arctic winter.
 

Reindeers under the arctic night

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1999-12 The daylight is just a red streak in the south in Desember
 
herder snow scooter;Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;Saami Sami reindeer herder Smuk siida Varanger
Reindeers under the arctic night

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1999-12 The daylight is just a red streak in the south in Desember
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;herder snow scooter;Saami Sami reindeer herder Smuk siida Varanger
Reindeers under the arctic night

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1999-12 The daylight is just a red streak in the south in Desember
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;Saami Sami reindeer herder Smuk siida Varanger
Reindeers under the arctic night

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1999-12 The daylight is just a red streak in the south in Desember
 
Ny side
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;Saami Sami reindeer herder Smuk siida Varanger
Reindeers under the arctic night

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1999-12 The daylight is just a red streak in the south in Desember
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger;Krampenes
Reindeers waiting for their destiny

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-11 In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark
 
Winter light
Resting tundra,longing for the light/Vuoinnasta,vuordá cuvggodit

©Øyvind Ravna
A boy on a ship.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger
Running - around and around

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-11 In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger
Running around and around

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-11 In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger;Krampenes
Running around inside the coral - waiting for the destiny

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-11 In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger;Krampenes
Running around inside the coral - waiting for the destiny

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-11 In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark
 
Krampenes;Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger
Running around inside the coral - waiting for the destiny.

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-11 Inside the coral
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger;Smuk family siida Varanger;Krampenes
Running around inside the coral - waiting for the destiny.

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-11 Inside the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, Finnmark
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger;Smuk family siida Varanger;Krampenes
Running around inside the coral - waiting for the destiny.

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-11 Inside the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger
Running in the coral

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-11 In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;snow scooter.;Smuk family siida Varanger;mountain plateau tundra Finnmark Norway
She goes to the North.

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 2001-05 The natural instinct of the female reindeer tells her to go to the North, to the sea, where the pasture is better, to give life to the newborn calves. \\\\
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;Smuk family siida Varanger;mountain plateau tundra Finnmark Norway
She is going to the North.

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 2001-05 The natural instinct of the female reindeer tells her to go to the North, to the sea, where the pasture is better, to give life to the newborn calves. \\
 
mountain plateau tundra;mountain plateau tundra Finnmark Norway;Smuk family siida Varanger;Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving
She is going to the North.

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 2001-05 The Smuk family has the biggest has the biggest reindeer herders in the Varanger Area. In beginning of May the reindeers migrate from the winter pasture on the south side of the Varanger fiord, to the Varanger Peninsula on the Northern side of Varanger fiord (the communities Båtsfjord, Nesseby, Vadsø, Vardø). The picture is from the migration over the Varanger Penisula.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;Smuk family siida Varanger;mountain plateau tundra Finnmark Norway
She is going to the North.

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 2001-05 The natural instinct of the female reindeer tells her to go to the North, to the sea, where the pasture is better, to give life to the newborn calves. \\
 
mountain plateau tundra Finnmark Norway;Smuk family siida Varanger;Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving
She is going to the North.

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 2001-05 The natural instinct of the female reindeer tells her to go to the North, to the sea, where the pasture is better, to give life to the newborn calves. \\
 
mountain plateau tundra Finnmark Norway;Smuk family siida Varanger;Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving
She is going to the North.

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 2001-05 The natural instinct of the female reindeer tells her to go to the North, to the sea, where the pasture is better, to give life to the newborn calves. \\
 
mountain plateau;Thomaselv;Vadsoe;Vadsø;Norway;Finnmark
She is on the way to the coast.

©Øyvind Ravna
Saami flag in Nenetsia.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger
Short days on the Varanger tundra

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-11 In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger
Showing the young ones how to mark the reindeer calves

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1997-09 Nils Andreas Smuk (Marrush Asllaga Niillas), was a big reindeer owner in the Varanger area. He passed away in a accident in 1997. Here he is learning the young generation how to set the property mark on the reindeeer calve.
 
snowscooter snow scooter sami reindeer herder Finnmark
Sometimes accidents happens in the springtime

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-05 At the Varanger tundra in May, the rivers often are open, and one has to be careful..
 
snowscooter snow scooter sami reindeer herder Finnmark;Varanger Peninsula
Sometimes accidents happens in the springtime

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-04 At the Varanger tundra in May, the rivers often are open, and one has to be careful..
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger;Smuk family siida Varanger;Krampenes
The children har following the work - see and learn

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1999-12 By the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;Smuk family siida Varanger;mountain plateau tundra Finnmark Norway
The cue of reindeers can be several kilometers.

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 2001-05 A long, long crowd of animals on the move.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;mountain plateau tundra;Saami Sami reindeer herder Smuk siida Varanger
The dark time is also the blue period

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1999-12 In the early winter days, the reindeers still are on the move to the inland, where the pastures consist of lichen, which is important for surviving the arctic winter.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;Saami Sami reindeer herder Smuk siida Varanger
The daylight is just a red streak in the south in Desember

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1999-12 In the early winter days, the reindeers still are on the move to the inland, where the pastures consist of lichen, which is important for surviving the arctic winter.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;Saami Sami reindeer herder Smuk siida Varanger
The daylight is just a red streak in the south in Desember

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1999-12 In the early winter days, the reindeers still are on the move to the inland, where the pastures consist of lichen, which is important for surviving the arctic winter.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder Smuk siida Varanger;Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving
The daylight is just a red streak in the south in Desember

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1999-12 In the early winter days, the reindeers still are on the move to the inland, where the pastures consist of lichen, which is important for surviving the arctic winter.
 

The daylight is just a red streak in the south in Desember

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1999-12 Reindeers on the Varanger tundra in the wintertime
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder Smuk siida Varanger;Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving
The daylight is just a red streak in the south in Desember

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1999-12 Reindeers on the Varanger tundra in the wintertime
 
Ny side
 

The daylight is just a red streak in the south in Desember

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1999-12 Reindeers on the Varanger tundra in the wintertime
 

The daylight is just a red streak in the south in Desember

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1999-12 Reindeers on the Varanger tundra in the wintertime
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger
The days are short in November

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-11 In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark.
 
mountain plateau;Finnmark;Norway;Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;Smuk family siida Varanger
The herder carefully follow the reindeers.

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 2001-05 During the migration to the North, the herders carefully follow the reindeers with snowscooters. To day the snow scooters are an indispensable help for the Saami reindeer herders in North Norway.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;mountain plateau tundra Finnmark Norway;Smuk family siida Varanger
The herder is carefully following the pregnant reindeers.

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 2001-05 Following the reindeers as the sun goes down. Will the female deer come to the place where they shall give birth in time? The picture is from the migration over the Varanger Penisula.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;mountain plateau tundra Finnmark Norway;Smuk family siida Varanger
The herder is following the reindeers as the sun goes down

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 2001-05 The Smuk family has the biggest has the biggest reindeer herders in the Varanger Area. In beginning of May the reindeers migrate from the winter pasture on the south side of the Varanger fiord, to the Varanger Peninsula on the Northern side of Varanger fiord (the communities Båtsfjord, Nesseby, Vadsø, Vardø). The picture is from the migration over the Varanger Penisula.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;Smuk family siida Varanger;mountain plateau tundra Finnmark Norway
The herder is following the reindeers as the sun goes down

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 2001-05 Following the reindeers as the sun goes down. Will the female deer come to the place where they shall give birth in time? The picture is from the migration over the Varanger Penisula.
 
Norway;Krampenes;Varanger Peninsula;Smuk siida;coral;fence
The heritage of the forefathers/Máttarmáttuid árbi.

©Øyvind Ravna
Transport reindeer going over the tundra in strong frost
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger;Nils Andrea Smuk
The knive does a sharp cut

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1997-09 The property mark is a cut in the ear of the reindeer
 

The knowledge goes from father to son

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1997-09 Nils Andreas Smuk (Marrush Asllaga Niillas), was a big reindeer owner in the Varanger area. He passed away in a accident in 1997. To the right his son.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral;Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral
The knowledge goes from father to son

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1997-09 Nils Andreas Smuk (Marrush Asllaga Niillas), was a big reindeer owner in the Varanger area. He passed away in a accident in 1997. Here he is learning the young generation (his son) how to set the property mark on the reindeeer calve.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger;property
The knowledge goes from father to son

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1997-09 Cutting the owner mark on the reindeer. In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger;property
The knowledge goes from father to son

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1997-09 Cutting the owner mark on the reindeer. In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger
The knowledge goes from father to son

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1997-09 Cutting the owner mark on the reindeer. In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger
The knowledge goes from father to son

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1997-09 Nils Andreas Smuk (Marrush Asllaga Niillas), was a big reindeer owner in the Varanger area. He passed away in a accident in 1997. Here he is learning the young generation (his son) how to set the property mark on the reindeeer calve.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral;Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger
The knowledge goes from father to son

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1997-09 Nils Andreas Smuk (Marrush Asllaga Niillas), was a big reindeer owner in the Varanger area. He passed away in a accident in 1997. Here he is learning the young generation (his son) how to set the property mark on the reindeeer calve.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger;Smuk family siida Varanger;Krampenes
The last transport

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1999-12 After the animals are divided, someone is going for the last transport - to the slaughter-house.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger
The low November sun over the coral

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-11 In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger
The low Nowmber sun over the reindeer coral

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-11 In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark
 
snowscooter snow scooter sami reindeer herder Finnmark;Odd Erling Smuk;Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving
The man is small on the huge tundra

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-05 At the Varanger tundra in May.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;snowscooter snow scooter sami reindeer herder Finnmark;Varanger Peninsula;Odd Erling Smuk;Smuk family siida Varanger
The man is small on the huge tundra

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-05 At the Varanger tundra in May.
 
reindeer herder;Smuk siida;Varanger Peninsula;Vadsoe;Varanger fiord;Norway;reindeer herd
The nature leads her to the North/Luondu - davás doalvu.

©Øyvind Ravna
A young Nenets boy with bow and arrow
 
mountain plateau tundra;Smuk family siida Varanger;Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;Finnmark;Norway
The oldest of the Smuk siida, Ragnar Smuk.

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 2001-05 An experenced reindeer herder and owner, the oldest of the Smuk siida, Ragnar Smuk
 

The powerful snow scooters make the tundra smaller

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-05
 

The powerful snow scooters make the tundra smaller

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-05
 
snowscooter snow scooter sami reindeer herder Finnmark
The powerful snow scooters make the tundra smaller

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-05
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger;Nils Andreas Smuk
The property mark is a cut in the ear of the reindeer

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1997-09 In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;Smuk family siida Varanger
The reindeer on the migration

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-05 Every spring, the reindeers cross the mountain plateau of Varanger Peninsula on the way to the sea and the summer pastures.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;Smuk family siida Varanger;mountain plateau tundra Finnmark Norway
The reindeer on the way to the place where they can give birth.

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 2001-05 The natural instinct of the female reindeer tells her to go to the North, to the sea, where the pasture is better, to give life to the newborn calves. \\
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;snowscooter snow scooter sami reindeer herder Finnmark;Odd Erling Smuk
The reindeer owner Odd Erling Smuk is looking for his deers

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-05 At the Varanger tundra in May.
 
Ny side
 
Norway;calf;fence;coral;Smuk siida;Varanger Peninsula;Krampenes
The reindeer was your life/Su eallin lei boazu.

©Øyvind Ravna
Sunset for Pustozersk - the first Russian fortified settlement in the Nenets land. Zoia Vylka is sitting by the fire memorizing.
 
mountain plateau tundra Finnmark Norway;Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;Smuk family siida Varanger
The reindeers of the Smuk siida migrate to the summer pasture.

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 2001-05 The Smuk family is the biggest Saami (Sami) reindeer herders in the Varanger Area. In beginning of May the reindeers migrate from the winter pasture on the south side of the Varanger fiord, to the Varanger Peninsula on the Northern side of Varanger fiord (the communities Båtsfjord, Nesseby, Vadsø, Vardø).The picture is from the Varanger Penisula.
 
mountain plateau tundra Finnmark Norway;Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;Smuk family siida Varanger
The reindeers of the Smuk siida migrate to the summer pasture.

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 2001-05 The Smuk family is the biggest Saami (Sami) reindeer herders in the Varanger Area. In beginning of May the reindeers migrate from the winter pasture on the south side of the Varanger fiord, to the Varanger Peninsula on the Northern side of Varanger fiord (the communities Båtsfjord, Nesseby, Vadsø, Vardø).The picture is from the Varanger Penisula.
 
mountain plateau tundra Finnmark Norway;Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;Smuk family siida Varanger
The reindeers of the Smuk siida migrate to the summer pasture.

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 2001-05 The Smuk family is the biggest Saami (Sami) reindeer herders in the Varanger Area. In beginning of May the reindeers migrate from the winter pasture on the south side of the Varanger fiord, to the Varanger Peninsula on the Northern side of Varanger fiord (the communities Båtsfjord, Nesseby, Vadsø, Vardø).The picture is from the Varanger Penisula.
 
mountain plateau tundra Finnmark Norway;Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;Smuk family siida Varanger
The reindeers of the Smuk siida migrate to the summer pasture.

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 2001-05 The Smuk family is the biggest Saami (Sami) reindeer herders in the Varanger Area. In beginning of May the reindeers migrate from the winter pasture on the south side of the Varanger fiord, to the Varanger Peninsula on the Northern side of Varanger fiord (the communities Båtsfjord, Nesseby, Vadsø, Vardø).The picture is from the Varanger Penisula.
 
mountain plateau tundra Finnmark Norway;Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;Smuk family siida Varanger
The reindeers of the Smuk siida migrate to the summer pasture.

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 2001-05 The Smuk family is the biggest Saami (Sami) reindeer herders in the Varanger Area. In beginning of May the reindeers migrate from the winter pasture on the south side of the Varanger fiord, to the Varanger Peninsula on the Northern side of Varanger fiord (the communities Båtsfjord, Nesseby, Vadsø, Vardø).The picture is from the Varanger Penisula.
 
mountain plateau tundra Finnmark Norway;Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;Smuk family siida Varanger
The reindeers of the Smuk siida migrate to the summer pasture.

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 2001-05 The Smuk family is the biggest Saami (Sami) reindeer herders in the Varanger Area. In beginning of May the reindeers migrate from the winter pasture on the south side of the Varanger fiord, to the Varanger Peninsula on the Northern side of Varanger fiord (the communities Båtsfjord, Nesseby, Vadsø, Vardø).The picture is from the Varanger Penisula.
 
mountain plateau tundra Finnmark Norway;Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;Smuk family siida Varanger
The reindeers of the Smuk siida migrate to the summer pasture.

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 2001-05 The Smuk family is the biggest Saami (Sami) reindeer herders in the Varanger Area. In beginning of May the reindeers migrate from the winter pasture on the south side of the Varanger fiord, to the Varanger Peninsula on the Northern side of Varanger fiord (the communities Båtsfjord, Nesseby, Vadsø, Vardø).The picture is from the Varanger Penisula.
 
mountain plateau tundra Finnmark Norway;Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;Smuk family siida Varanger
The reindeers of the Smuk siida migrate to the summer pasture.

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 2001-05 The Smuk family is the biggest Saami (Sami) reindeer herders in the Varanger Area. In beginning of May the reindeers migrate from the winter pasture on the south side of the Varanger fiord, to the Varanger Peninsula on the Northern side of Varanger fiord (the communities Båtsfjord, Nesseby, Vadsø, Vardø).The picture is from the Varanger Penisula.
 
mountain plateau tundra Finnmark Norway;Smuk family siida Varanger;Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving
The reindeers of the Smuk siida migrate to the summer pasture.

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 2001-05 The Smuk family is the biggest Saami (Sami) reindeer herders in the Varanger Area. In beginning of May the reindeers migrate from the winter pasture on the south side of the Varanger fiord, to the Varanger Peninsula on the Northern side of Varanger fiord (the communities Båtsfjord, Nesseby, Vadsø, Vardø).The picture is from the Varanger Penisula.
 
mountain plateau tundra Finnmark Norway;Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;Smuk family siida Varanger
The reindeers of the Smuk siida migrate to the summer pasture.

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 2001-05 The Smuk family is the biggest Saami (Sami) reindeer herders in the Varanger Area. In beginning of May the reindeers migrate from the winter pasture on the south side of the Varanger fiord, to the Varanger Peninsula on the Northern side of Varanger fiord (the communities Båtsfjord, Nesseby, Vadsø, Vardø).The picture is from the Varanger Penisula.
 
mountain plateau tundra;Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;Smuk family siida Varanger;mountain plateau tundra Finnmark Norway
The reindeers of the Smuk siida migrate to the summer pasture.

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 2001-05 The Smuk family is the biggest Saami (Sami) reindeer herders in the Varanger Area. In beginning of May the reindeers migrate from the winter pasture on the south side of the Varanger fiord, to the Varanger Peninsula on the Northern side of Varanger fiord (the communities Båtsfjord, Nesseby, Vadsø, Vardø).The picture is from the Varanger Penisula.
 
mountain plateau tundra Finnmark Norway;Smuk family siida Varanger;Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving
The reindeers of the Smuk siida migrate to the summer pasture.

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 2001-05 The Smuk family is the biggest Saami (Sami) reindeer herders in the Varanger Area. In beginning of May the reindeers migrate from the winter pasture on the south side of the Varanger fiord, to the Varanger Peninsula on the Northern side of Varanger fiord (the communities Båtsfjord, Nesseby, Vadsø, Vardø). The picture is from the Varanger Penisula.
 
mountain plateau tundra;Smuk family siida Varanger;Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;Finnmark;Norway
The reindeers on the move over the Varanger Peninsula.

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 2001-05 In the daytime the snow starts to be soft in May.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger
The reindeers were your life

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1997-09 In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger
The reindeers were your life

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1997-09 In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;mountain plateau tundra Finnmark Norway;Smuk family siida Varanger
The spring time migration.

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 2001-05 Reindeer is going over the snow covered Varanger Peninsula.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;mountain plateau tundra Finnmark Norway;Smuk family siida Varanger
The spring time migration.

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 2001-05 Reindeer moving over the huge mountain plateau.
 
mountain plateau tundra Finnmark Norway;Smuk family siida Varanger;Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving
The springtime migration.

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 2001-05 The springtime migration.
 
mountain plateau tundra;Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;Smuk family siida Varanger;mountain plateau tundra Finnmark Norway
The springtime migration.

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 2001-05 The Smuk family has the biggest has the biggest reindeer herders in the Varanger Area. In beginning of May the reindeers migrate from the winter pasture on the south side of the Varanger fiord, to the Varanger Peninsula on the Northern side of Varanger fiord (the communities Båtsfjord, Nesseby, Vadsø, Vardø). The picture is from the migration over the Varanger Penisula.
 
mountain plateau tundra Finnmark Norway;Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;Smuk family siida Varanger
The springtime migration.

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 2001-05 The Smuk family is the biggest Saami (Sami) reindeer herders in the Varanger Area. In beginning of May the reindeers migrate from the winter pasture on the south side of the Varanger fiord, to the Varanger Peninsula on the Northern side of Varanger fiord (the communities Båtsfjord, Nesseby, Vadsø, Vardø).The picture is from the Varanger Penisula.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger;Smuk family siida Varanger;Krampenes
The truck the slaughter-house has arrived

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-11 In the evening comes the truck that will bring the young reindeers to the slaughter-house. Their migration is ended.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger;Smuk family siida Varanger;Krampenes
The truck the slaughter-house has arrived

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-11 In the evening comes the truck that will bring the young reindeers to the slaughter-house. Their migration is ended.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger;Smuk family siida Varanger
The youg peole got experience

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1997-09 In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger
The young Sami children learn early to work with the reindeers

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1997-09 In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger
The young Sami children learn early to work with the reindeers

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1997-09 In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger
The young Sami children learn early to work with the reindeers

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1997-09 In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger;Smuk family siida Varanger;Krampenes
Their days are ended

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-11 In the evening comes the truck that will bring the young reindeers to the slaughter-house. Their migration is ended.
 
Krampenes;Iver Per Smuk;Smuk siida;Norway;Varanger Peninsula
This makesThis makes my mind brighter/Cábbudahttá jurdaga.

©Øyvind Ravna
Zoia Vylka and Alexander Chuprov sitting on snowscooters
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;Smuk family siida Varanger
Thousands of feet on the way to the coast

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-05 Every spring, the reindeers cross the mountain plateau of Varanger Peninsula on the way to the sea and the summer pastures.
 
Ny side
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger
Three generations at work

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1997-09 In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger
Under a low sun

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-11 In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger
Under a low sun

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-11 In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger
Under a low sun

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-11 In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger
Under a low sun

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-11 In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark.
 
snowscooter snow scooter sami reindeer herder Finnmark
Up from the river - freedom on the tundra

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-05
 
snowscooter snow scooter sami reindeer herder Finnmark
Up from the river - freedom on the tundra

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-05
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger;Smuk family siida Varanger;Krampenes
Waiting for the destiny.

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-11 In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger;Smuk family siida Varanger;Krampenes
Waiting for the last transport

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-11 In the evening comes the truck that will bring the young reindeers to the slaughter-house. Their migration is ended.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger;Smuk family siida Varanger;Krampenes
Waiting for the last transport

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-11 In the evening comes the truck that will bring the young reindeers to the slaughter-house. Their migration is ended.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger;Krampenes
Waiting for their destiny

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-11 In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;snow scooter;Saami Sami reindeer herder Smuk siida Varanger
Watching the reindeers in the dark time

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1999-12 Reindeers on the Varanger tundra in the wintertime
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;Saami Sami reindeer herder Smuk siida Varanger
Watching the reindeers in the dark time

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1999-12 Reindeers on the Varanger tundra in the wintertime
 
Norway;antlers;Hamningberg;Smuk siida;Varanger Peninsula
Waving ocean, create wind!/Bárus - boso ain!

©Øyvind Ravna
On the river Ob at the sunset time.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;Smuk family siida Varanger
What a day of the spring tundra!

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-05 Every spring, the reindeers cross the mountain plateau of Varanger Peninsula on the way to the sea and the summer pastures.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;Varanger Peninsula;Smuk family siida Varanger;mountain plateau tundra
What a day of the spring tundra!

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-05 Every spring, the reindeers cross the mountain plateau of Varanger Peninsula on the way to the sea and the summer pastures.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder migration roaming moving;Smuk family siida Varanger;Varanger Peninsula
What the tundra hides

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-05 Traces after a huge reindeer heard
 
reindeer herder;Varanger Peninsula;Smuk siida;reindeer herding;Norway;traces;snow;spring
What the tundra hides/Maid duottar ciehká.

©Øyvind Ravna
Portrait of a Nenets woman
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger
Who belongs to who - finding the right calves.

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1997-09 In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger
Who is the owner

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1997-10 In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger
Working in the coral

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1997-09 In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger
Working in the coral at Krampenes, East Finnmark

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1997-09 In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger
Working in the coral in the short, cold November days

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-11 In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger
Working in the coral in the short, cold November days

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-11 In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger
Working in the coral in the short, cold November days

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-11 In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger
Working in the coral in the short, cold November days

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-11 In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger
Working in the coral in the short, cold November days

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-11 In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger;Krampenes
Working in the coral in the wintertime

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1999-12 In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark in December. Choosing reindeers for the wintertime slathering.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger;Varanger Peninsula;Krampenes
Working in the coral in the wintertime

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1999-12 In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark in December. Choosing reindeers for the wintertime slathering.
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger;Nils Andreas Smuk;Nils Andrea Smuk
Working in the coral of the Smuk siida, Krampenes

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1997-09 In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark
 
Ny side
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger
Working in the coral of the Smuk siida, Krampenes

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1997-09 Cutting the owner mark on the reindeer. In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger
Working in the coral of the Smuk siida, Krampenes

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1997-09 In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger
Working in the coral of the Smuk siida, Krampenes

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1997-09 In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger
Working in the coral of the Smuk siida, Krampenes

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1997-09 In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger
Working to force the reindeers to the centre of the coral

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-11 In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark
 
Saami Sami reindeer herder fence coral Smuk siida Varanger;Krampenes
Working to force the reindeers to the centre of the coral

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-11 In the coral of the Smuk siida at Krampenes, East Finnmark
 
snowscooter snow scooter sami reindeer herder Finnmark;Saami Sami reindeer herder Smuk siida Varanger;Odd Erling Smuk
Working to save the snow scooter

©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1998-05 At the Varanger tundra in May, the rivers often are open, and one has to be careful..
 
 
 
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
 
     
 
 
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
   
 
 
 
     
     
     
 


 

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