Rámavuol Elle Bigge / Ellen Berit Dalbakk

Photo: Carl-Johan Utsi

Rámavuol Elle Bigge / Ellen Berit Dalbakk is a duojár, practitioner of Sami craft knowledge, based in the home village of Rámavuollie in Dielddanuorri Tjeldsund and Giron Kiruna on the Swedish side.

She has duodjie education from Sámij åhpådusguovdásj in Jåhkåmåhkke Jokkmokk and has also learned a lot of her duodjie through the collective in Stuornjárgga sámiid duodjie, of which her mother is also a part.

Elle Bigge works with dipmaduodjie, soft materials. She is particularly keen to see duodjie as a collective while it is a rare tradition