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A Farm From J\u00e1vrebainj\u00e1rga (2)<\/h2>\n

Cowshed (no.3)<\/h3>\n
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The J\u00e1vrebainj\u00e1rga cowshed at J\u00e1vrebainj\u00e1rga. Photo: Harald Eidheim 1952 (DigitaltMuseum\/Norsk Folkemuseum\/NF.05074-032\/\ud83c\udd6d BY-SA<\/a>)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

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The cowshed from J\u00e1vrebainj\u00e1rga in the Open-air Museum. Photo: SVD, Paula Rauhala. 2019<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

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The cowshed is part of the J\u00e1vrebainj\u00e1rga farm complex. It was for keeping cows and sheep. The floor of the cowshed was made with flat stones. Inside there was a big pot in which food for the farm animals was cooked. The heat of the pot also kept the cowshed warm. The pots ranged in size from 200 to 300 litres.<\/p>\n

The hay was put into buckets in front of the cows and on the floor for sheep. The animals were also fed with fodder and lichen. The cowshed always had to have water. Hay was mown both in the farm\u2019s own fields and in clearings elsewhere.<\/p>\n

Cow dung in the cowshed was collected with a broom and thrown out through a small hatch (ihkkonr\u00e1igi) that was built onto the back of the cowshed.<\/p>\n

The river valleys of the north are usually fertile and suitable for agriculture. S\u00e1mi farmers usually kept just a few domestic animals because they had also other means of livelihood, such as fishing, hunting, gathering and trading.<\/p>\n

Verddevuohta – Friendly Trading<\/h4>\n

Various S\u00e1mi communities depended on exchanging goods, food and other commodities with other S\u00e1mi communities and families. Reindeer S\u00e1mis, Coastal S\u00e1mis and Forest S\u00e1mis traded fish, reindeer meat, milk, cheese, butter, wool, flour, potatoes, willow grouse and other birds and shoegrass etc. Coastal S\u00e1mis would get reindeer meat from reindeer herders and Reindeer S\u00e1mis would get fish from Coastal S\u00e1mis. This social and economic verddevuohta (friendly arrangement) continues today.<\/p>\n

Hay Preserving and Agricultural Work<\/h4>\n

In 1997 S\u00e1miid Vuork\u00e1-D\u00e1vvirat documented a traditional method of storing hay. The pictures show Osvald Guttorm and a fully equipped horse with a horse-collar. In the photos Osvald Guttorm is transporting hay to the cowshed. The photos belong to the SVD collection of photographs. The documentation was part of the SVD project called \u201cHehke geavaheapmi\u201d (the use of a hehkke). The project was documented by museum employee worker Berit \u00c5se Johnsen in the Open-air Museum in 1997.<\/p>\n