Bone, antlers and pelts in the North

Contact and trade with the Sámi people in the North included goods made from pelts, and deer and elk antlers for making combs. The literary sources tell of ”trading expeditions” up in the Arctic areas where the Sámi people were taxed.

Objects made of whalebone and walrus tusk, along with a bone from a polar bear found in the middle parts of Sweden, may be the results of such expeditions.

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