Traditional Finnish Hunting & Fishing Methods
Luckily for us Finnish Defence Forces has released their 1985 manual for hunting and fishing with traditional Finnish methods. The manual ("Luonnonmuonaohje") is about how to survive in nature without...
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wow, again thanks for the wealth of information here.Martti, you mentioned in an older post:"Finnish Defence Forces and the Border Guard executed series of experiments in 1978 and 1979 at Kainuu,...
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gooseberry wrote:Do you know any more about that experiment? I wonder what type of fish they got...2lbs of fish/day is certainly not enough to live off in the wintertime, and it would have to be...
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1913 Edition of "Historiallinen Aikakauskirja" journal contains an interesting list of food and equipment leased to four fishermen in 1520.- Thirty pounds of bread- Several hundred liters of rye for...
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Bone spoons from Finnish Lapland. Photographed at the Finnish National Museum. Most of them are from 1890s and were made using only a knife.
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Again if I may talk a bit off the topic by introducing you to some of the Finnish/Karelian carrying devices. The first in line is a classic U-shaped...
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Martti Kujansuu wrote:Luckily for us Finnish Defence Forces has released their 1985 manual for hunting and fishing with traditional Finnish methods. The manual ("Luonnonmuonaohje") is about how to...
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Cuddles McKitten wrote: That link doesn't seem to be active anymore. I did, however, find an alternate download at: http://www.peda.net/img/p...mo1985.pdf?cs=1216877474Also available at...
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For me the first book link doesn't work, this one is ok.
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To get back to the question of backpack, I find it interesting that according to T. Korhonen (in "Tekniikkaa, taidetta ja taikauskoa") badger bags were used widely in Southern and Central Finland...
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It is my understanding that Stone Age gill nets are hard to come and after a hundred years of archaeology, there are only few found. Apart from the Antrea net that I referenced earlier, the other...
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Here is a Karelian hunter from the Finnish-Russian frontier drawn by L. Sparre in 1893. He is carrying a flintlock but, as it seems, also a blanket roll? Similar contraptions are know from Finnish...
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From the drawings below you can make out three different methods of making snares out of horsehair. The first was used to catch anything from tits to mooses, depending how many threads one had used to...
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Some additional reading regarding non-weapon objects used for hunting:Janne Vilkuna, Ancient Skis of Central FinlandO. V. Ovsyannikov, On old Russian skisTimo Kuokkanen, Stone Age sledges of...
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Very cool stuff Marrti. I'm always interested in the stuff you post. You wouldn't by any chance have descriptions of other types of handpulled Finnish or Fenno-Ugrian sleds, being ancient or...
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torjusg wrote:You wouldn't by any chance have descriptions of other types of handpulled Finnish or Fenno-Ugrian sleds, being ancient or relatively recent? I could not view the film but as the matter...
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I composed this short list of important days to a hunter living in Taiga from Kustaa Vilkuna's book Vuotuinen ajantieto. These days among with other important days were usually carved into rune...
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I read the book on Finnish dugout boats written by T. I. Itkonen in 1941. It lists all the dugout founds made in Finland before the year 1941 by area, size, material etc. The average size is between...
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Marrti, you really make me miss the Laplands. Most of the stuff you've posted here is near identical to what I saw up there when I was little. Thanks for a really neat info hotpot.
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Found this interesting design for a Finnish Defence Patrol boat from year 1955. The frame is made out of wood of almost any kind and the shell is from waterproof fabric. The design is light enough to...
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