Культурное наследие Севера в цифре.

also presented at the Sami National Day, 6th of February, in 6 different places in Finnmark; Kautokeino, Karasjok, Masi, Alta, Nesseby and Vads 0 , and was even used to mark the opening of the Finnmark County council meeting in October 2017th. The Danish photographer Henrik 0rsted, born 1939, worked in Oslo as a press- and commercial photographer for 30 years. He travelled both to Svalbard and Finnmark and after his retirement, he decided to donate his collection of al­ most 1800 negatives and positives to the Finnmark County Library. Henrik 0rsteds style is simple and down to earth with strong roots in documentary pho­ tography. He shot many intimate, personal portraits of the Sami people and re­ turned to work with them several times. His pictures are interesting documents offering a rich study on the daily life and work of the Sami people in the 1970’s. The collection is important because there is not many photo collections docu­ menting this period so thoroughly within the Sami community. The Sami mail carrier Mathis Mathisen Buljo, named «Post-Mathis» among his people, covered the longest national post route in Norway. A 30 mile-long route that took up to 4 days to deliver mail in the vast area of the Sami herders. The route started from the post office in Mieronjavre heading over to Napolsaiva, further on to Bavtajohka and all the way in to upper Anarjoka national park at the border of Finland. «Post-Mathis» visited over 30 different communities, called “Siidas” in Sami, and covered a vast area with over 30.000 reindeers, a herding community constantly on the move. Finding them demanded a great skill of orien­ tation and knowledge of how the Sami people lived close to nature under though weather conditions, and how they moved with the changing conditions. Henrik 0rsted travelled north to follow «Post-Mathis» on his post route some time during the 1970’s, to document on the behalf of the Norwegian Post Office. His work reflects a part of history that has little documentation in photo collections in Norway. The photos show how the Sami peoples integrated to the modern society more than being an isolated minority. 0rstad was not interested in 23