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Via Everlasting Blört, we are introduced Sámi multimedia artist and designer Britta Margareta Marakatt-Labba through her monumental piece on the history and mythology of Sápmi, the homeland of the indigenous peoples that stretches from Norway to Russia, created between 2003 and 2007. Often drawing comparisons to the Bayeux Tapestry (see also), the twenty-four metre long embroidered textile normal is in residence on the campus of the Univerisity of Trømso but been displayed by several Scandinavian museums and galleries as well as documentca 14 in Kassel. Click through at the link up top for a guided tour with the artist including the time when the tradition of yoiking returned.