Our icy acrylic lighted deer figurines are 8½ inches tall and 9¼ across. The lighted deer figurines are made of acrylic and consist of a wintry woodland scene with three pine trees and two reindeer. The branches on the trees are clear on the tips like icicles. The trunk and inner parts of the branches have chunks of acrylic and small iridescent pieces of acrylic that give the trees an icy look. The reindeer are frosted with clear acrylic antlers. There are iridescent highlight on the bodies of the deer figurines. The base of the deer figurine scene is 9¼ inches across and also has icy chunks of acrylic and small iridescent pieces giving the whole deer figurine scene an icy appearance.
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History of Reindeer.
The reindeer is a deer of northern Europe and Asia which is closely related to the North American caribou. It can be tamed and has become one of man’s most valuable possessions in the arctic regions. Reindeer and caribou differ from other members of the deer family by having large, deeply cleft hoofs, a hairy muzzle and somewhat broader antlers, borne by both male and female. Reindeer stand about three and a half feet high and weigh about three hundred pounds. They are smaller and have shorter legs than the caribou. This has probably come about by selection over the centuries as the owners sought to get an animal that could be managed. The wild caribou is too big and strong, as well as too obstinate to be tamed successfully.
If it were not for the reindeer, the people of Lapland would have no means of transportation in their cold and barren country. These animals can draw their sledges over the snow at the rate of twelve to fifteen miles an hour. Reindeer have endurance as well as swiftness, for they can travel with a load of from two hundred and fifty to three hundred pounds for hours at a time. To the lowland Laplanders, the reindeer is horse, sheep and cow, all in one. The animals furnish the people with shelter. In the summer, reindeer meat is cured and great quantities of cheese are made from the surplus milk and stored for use through the long winter. Many of the animals run wild, but are lured into traps by the use of trained decoy reindeer. They are given ownership marks by cutting or biting out notches from the ears and are then trained. They wander about near their owner’s home and fond their food under the snow.
In order to provide a reliable source of food for the Eskimo of western Alaska, the United States Office of Education imported 1,280 reindeer from Siberia between 1892 and 1902. More than a million reindeer descended from these animals are now distributed from Point Barrow to Kodiak Island. In 1935 the Canadian Government established a large herd of reindeer near the mouth of the Mackenzie River in Yukon Territory for the benefit of the Eskimo of that region.
Because the herds increase every year by about 20 percent, a surplus of animals is available even after the needs of the natives have been satisfied. Reindeer hides are used in making clothing and sleeping bags. The strong flavored meat is jerked, smoked and sometimes canned.
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History of the Modern American Santa Claus.
Born in the United States of mixed ethnic and religious heritage, Santa Claus embodies the American ideal of the nation as a great melting pot of cultural identities. Santa Claus became an important folk figure in the second half of the nineteenth century, about the time when Americans were beginning to celebrate Christmas in large numbers. Santa Claus bears a good deal of resemblance to his closest relative, the old European gift bringer St. Nicholas. Indeed “St. Nick” serves as one of Santa’s nicknames.
Many popular songs tell of his North Pole and Christmas Eve activities. Nearly every American child can tell you that Santa is a plump, old man with a white beard who wears a baggy red suit and cap trimmed with white fur. Many send letters to his North Pole workshop describing the gifts they would like to receive for Christmas. They eagerly await Christmas Eve, when he loads his sled with toys for good girls and boys and flies around the world, sliding down chimneys to place the presents under decorated Christmas trees. As if to confirm this Christmas fairy tale, men in Santa suits regularly appear on street corners, at office parties, and in department and toy stores around Christmas time.
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