Joannis Schefferi Argentoratensis Lapponia, id est, Regionis Lapponum et gentis nova et verissima descriptio : in qua multa de origine, superstitione, sacris magicis, victu, cultu, negotiis Lapponum, item animalium, metallorumque indole, quae in terris eorum proveniunt, hactenus incognita produntur, & eiconibus adjectis cum cura illustrantur
Johannes Scheffer's 1673 Latin ethnography and natural history of Lapland, printed at Frankfurt for scholarly readers, describes Sami customs, magic, livelihoods and the region's animals and metals. The woodcuts show a ritual-style table with antlers and a kneeling figure, Sami men and a woman in traditional dress, decorative ornament bands and a grotesque mask cartouche, offering a designer early-modern woodcut vocabulary for borders, dress and folk-costume motifs.
