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of the Laplanders. 47
Should part with it, and nor make him another, he Should have the fame
viiions he had formerly : and he inSlanc’t in my Self, giving me a true and
particuliar relation of whatever had happened to me in my journy to
Lafland. And he farther complained, that he knew not how to make ufe cf his
eies, Since things altogether distant were prefented to them.
As for the art, it is, according to the diversity of the inftrumenrs they
make ufe of in it, divided into two parts: one comprehends all that to
which their Drum belongs, the other thofe things to which knots , darts,
Spells, conjurations, and the like refer. First concerning the drum, as being
peculiar to the Laf landers-, and called by them Jiannus , or Quobdai; it is
made out of a hollcw piece of wood, and must either be of pine, fir,
or birch tree, which grows in fucha particular place, and turns diredly
according to the Suns courfe ; which is , whtn the grain cS the wood,
running from the bottom to the top of the tree , winds it Self from the right
hand to the left. From this perhaps they believe this tree very acceptable
to the Sun, which under the image of Thor theyworfhip with all
imaginable devotion. The piece of wood they make it of, muft be of the root cleft
afunder, and made hollow on one Side, upon which they Stretch a skin: the
other Side, being convex, is the lower part, in which they make two holes,
where they put their fingers to hold it. The Shape of the upper Side is oval,
in diameter almost half an ell, very often not Somuchjit is like a kettle
drum , but not altogether So round, nor fo hollow 5 neither is the skin
fastned with little iron fcrewes , but wooden pegs. I have feen forme fowed
w ith the finews of Rain-dears. Olaiu termed the drum very imprcperly an
anvil, tho I believe he only meant by this a drum , as will appear
hereafter. This perhaps made the Engraver miStake , who made a Smith’s anvil
for it, placing a Serpent and a frog upon it, with a Smith’s hammer by.
The Laf landers ufe only a drum, which perhaps becauSe they beat it with
a hammer, was by Olam called an anvil. They paint upon the skin Several
pidtures in red , stained with the bark of an Alder tree. They draw near
the middle of the drum Several lines quite croSs, upon theSe they place thoSe
Gods, to whom they pay the greatest worSbip, as Thor the chief God, with
his attendance, and Storjunkar with his: theSe are drawn on the top of the
line; after this they draw another line parallel to the former, only half
croSs the drum,.on this Stands the image of Christ with Some of his ApoStles.
Whatever is drawn above thefe two lines reprtfents birds, Stars, and
the Moon ; below theSe they place the Sun , as middlemoSl of the Planets,
in the very middle of the drum, upon which they put a bunch of brazen
rings when they beat it. Below the Sun they paint the terreftrial things,
and living creatures5 as Bears, Wolves, Rain-dears, Otters,
FcXes,Ser-pents:as alSo MarShes, Lakes, Rivers, fee. This is the description of the
drum according to Sum. Rheen, of which this is the pidure.
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