wood sculpture

Wood-carved sculpture depicting woman and girl carrying shoehö. The woman cuts off the hay (the starring) and the girl combs it, sitting on her knee. 3 screws screwed from below. Skohö, gámasuojne has been used as a sock in the shoes and as a nerve suppose in the gloves. It keeps feet and hands warm in the cold in winter and dry during the summer. Skohö is made by starr, Carex. Various starry species have been used to make shoehö, the most common being bottle starr, Carex rostrata, and blue starr, Carex vesicaria. Starr to be used for shoehay is harvested in late summer, in August-September. The starry then contains a lot of plant fibers (cellulose), and is seg and does not crumble when processed. When harvesting shoehay, it is cut with a knife as close as possible to the ground as the lowest part of the starter becomes the best shoe hay. In order for the starter to be used as a shoehö, it must first be made soft. By hitting the starry several times against a sharp rock, it becomes soft. The starry can also be combed through a nail comb to cleave the straw so they become soft. The shoe hay is then braided to a wooden hob, bilggá. A wooden hay braid is rosy and takes a seat so one makes a shoe hearing, vierra, of two shoe hay braids. The braided hay was folded around a round-tied video path or around a ring of shoehay to a wreath until there is almost no hole in the middle. A shoe hearing was easy to freeze and store. Lulesamic names: gámasuojne - shoehö, suojnit -harvest shoehö, bilggá -shoehen, vierra - school cornering, tjåhkom - shoehökam, tsábbmet - beat the school hay, dállit - stop in the shoe hay. (Source: Kajsa Kuoljok: Gámasuojne/Skohö. Ájtte musei friends smilk 2012)