1-158-947 - Oxford Science Archive/Heritage Images

'The Rein Deer', c1850. The Lapps (Samek or Samer), nomadic herdsmen of the Arctic from the Kola peninsula to northwest Sweden whose traditional way of life depended on their herds of semi-domesticated reindeer. The central image shows a reindeer. Surrounding vignettes show (clockwise from top left): hunters on skis hunting wild reindeer; milking reindeer; Lapps in a tent of reindeer skin eating reindeer meat; clothing made of reindeer skins; reindeer meat and products being exported; reindeer as draught animals pulling sledges loaded with merchandise; a Lapp travelling by reindeer sledge; a reindeer as a pack animal. From Graphic Illustrations of Animals and Their Utility to Man published by Thomas Varty. (London, c1850).