Visualising invisibility: photography and physical anthropology in Norway¹

Figures & data

Figure 1. Photographic montage consisting of racial photographs from the original Schreiner Collection at the Department of Anatomy, and contemporary portraits of unnamed Sámi individuals, all from the Tysfjord area (photographer unknown), situated in the entrance hall of the Lule Sámi Centre. Photograph reproduced with permission from Árran Julevsáme guovdásj/The Lule Sámi Centre.

Figure 2. Facsimile from Alette Schreiner, Anthropologische Lokaluntersuchungen in Norge: Hellemo (Tysfjordlappen), Oslo: Det Norske Vitenskaps-akademi. 1932, Tafel XIX, fig. 50 & 51.

Figure 3. Facsimile from Alette Schreiner, Anthropologische Lokaluntersuchungen in Norge: Valle, Hålandsdal und Eidfjord, Oslo: Det Norske Vitenskaps-akademi, 1929, Tafel XVII, fig. 42 & 43.

Figure 4. Facsimile from Karl Emil Schreiner. Bidrag til Rogalands Antropologi. Oslo: Det Norske Vitenskaps-akademi, 1941, Figure 1. Nr. 438. Ryfylke & Figure 2. Nr. 207. Stavanger.

Figure 5. Ethnographic photograph originating from the Schreiner Collection. Photographer: Alette Schreiner. Published with permission from Tromsø Museum—University Museum.

Figure 6. Expedition photograph from the excavations in Neiden, Finnmark in 1915. Photographer: Johan Brun. Published with permission from Tromsø Museum—University museum.