Web Shop Update

Why am I Closing my Paivatar Web Shop? EU GPSR I have spent the past few months setting up my Paivatar Website onto a new server. This took some time and effort […]

Petsamo – WW1

PETSAMO – WW1 TALES OF A SEA SAMI – 3 Tales of a Sámi 1914-1917 (Age 8-11) Young Salomon’s Mother gets very ill during the War and is placed into long term […]

Eary Childhood Memories

My Sámi Grandmother

Early Childhood Memories TALES OF A SEA SAMI – Childhood Memories – PETSAMO (Pechenga) – SPOKEN LANGUAGE: FINNISH AI EDITED – AI was used to clean up the old cassette tapes and […]

Finnslough

Sam Repairing His Fishing Nets

Finn Slough My father was a Finnish Saami. After immigrating to Canada he became a commercial fisherman, gillnet fishing on the west coast of Vancouver. In the early 1960’s my dad purchased […]

Reindeer Leather Pouches

Reindeer / Fish Leather Coffee Bag

Reindeer Leather Pouches and Bags I make these reindeer leather pouches and purses using small textile scraps of reindeer leather, because reindeer leather is hard to obtain. The Saami raise reindeer herds […]

Reindeer Leather Jewellery

Reindeer Leather Arm Bands

Sami Reindeer Leather Jewelry I make a selection of reindeer leather jewelry, bracelets, arm bands, necklaces using natural materials and techniques in the tradition of my ancestors. I use natural reindeer leather, […]