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Cuts in an ear naming an owner.
Also known as: Sami earmark, Reindeer ownership mark
The Sámi system of notches cut into a reindeer's ears to identify its owner.
Identifies the owner of a reindeer by a registered pattern of cuts in both ears.
Contexts: History, Public information
Inherited and modified by descent, so related families carry related marks and a herd's marks record a kinship structure as well as an ownership one — the same principle as the European house mark recorded elsewhere in this sprint.
Contexts: History, Public information
Registered with public authorities in the Nordic states, which makes it one of very few indigenous notations with formal legal standing.
Contexts: History, Public information
A combination of notches, slits and cropped shapes cut into the edges and tips of both ears, the pattern differing between the left and the right.
Both identify a household's property with an inherited mark modified by descent.