Via Anna's iPhone
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Thank You Bejla!
Isolde thanks Bejla for the cool gift from Greenland, a rattle ball in sealskin (right?)! Isolde must be one of few children in Sweden with one! I expressed a liking to it a while back (before I was pregnant and had a friend in mind then) but never got around to ordering one via Bejla but evidently she remembered! :)
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Looks nice and furry:)
ReplyDeleteWow, va coolt!
ReplyDeleteKul att den kom fram och att den föll i smaken! ;-) Jo det är sälskin, handsydd av en av syerskoran här i Nuuk. Tyvärr fick jag inte namnet på henne.
ReplyDeleteMiranda
ReplyDeleteSeal skin??? Seals get clubbed to death for balls?
Edina - It is :)
ReplyDeleteKatarina - Eller hur, lite annorlunda!
Bejla - Tack igen! Den är jättefin!
Miranda - I have also thought about this but I know that in Greenland at least they use everything from the seals. So they don't kill them just to make toys; they are primarily killed for food and for material for inuit clothing, etc. and whatever is left over becomes toys or what have you.
And they are not clobbed. That is not the way it's done in Greenland and it never has been. Compared to the way pigs and so on are treated this is a very humane way to hunt/breed were the animals lives in freedom until they are killed (in a fast and as close to painless posible way). And as Anna says; every litle thing on the animal is used, also the bones. For example: Seal is the single most important ingredient in the inuit kitchen and an important part of the culture here. That beeing said, I can understand that it awakes questions among those who saw the films that was spread all over the world, from Canada and Norway, of hunters only interested in the poor animals skin.
ReplyDeleteGulligt!
ReplyDeleteBejla - It's true that the animals we eat on a daily basis are not treated very well. And lots of the animal is wasted too I'm sure.
ReplyDeleteMaisoui - :)