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In Karl Tirén's collection of Sámi yoiks from 1915 there are several yoiks describing the wolverine. A complex yoik do describe not only the object wolverine in this case, but also the situation of the moment and participants. This is a historical document and of the nature.

Paper long abstract

In the beginning of 20th century the train inspector Karl Tirén started a documentation with field work, using a phonograph to record Sámi peoples traditional songs. His diary's, field notes together with his wax cylinders gives the modern world a glimpse of a time of fortune. We are having a great opportunity to read and understand the history of a people from their own perspectives. Tirén's collection is now a UNESCO memory of the world. One of the objects is stories about the wolverine that I will analyze as what the Sámi scholar Israel Ruong established complex yoiks. This is when many objects are intertwined in the story giving a a better picture of the situation. It seems from the beginning that this is about the wolverine itself, but you will have the whole story of a hunting expedition and participants like men and dogs. You can compare the story with the petroglyphs from western Russia were you can follow the entire moose hunt. This wolverine hunt is a story of nature and what happens describing the movement of the wolverine running on the snow that don't carry a human body. Tiréns sound clips is a gold mine for music and language scholars, hearing the exact melody and phrasing.