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English: Sami People of the Nordic areas (Norway, Sweden and Finland) is offering and praying at a mound grave or tumuli. They are praying to the God of the Underworld. They offered horse’s and deer’s for the God worshipped at this sacred place. Bernard Picart used some of the same depictions of the ancient Sami religion as Johannes Scheffer or Johannes Schefferus had used for documenting the Laplander (i.e. Sami) people in the history book "Lapponia" (1673). http://www.saamiblog.blogspot.com/
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Source ”Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde”
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Bernard Picart  (1673–1733)  wikidata:Q559929 s:en:Author:Bernard Picart
 
Bernard Picart
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Bernard Picard; Bernard Picart (le Romain); B. Picart
Description French copper engraver and illustrator
Date of birth/death 11 June 1673 Edit this at Wikidata 8 May 1733 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Paris Amsterdam
Work period 1732 Edit this at Wikidata
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Java; Schermerhorn Edit this at Wikidata
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