Kristine Andersen Vesterfjell

Kristine Andersen Vesterfjell (sometimes written Westerfjell; 1910–1987) was a Norwegian, Southern Sami reindeer herder and an important advocate for Sámi shamanism and culture.

[2] Although she had never seen the drum in use, she knew where it had been hidden in the early 1900s, what the surface looked like, what the symbols meant, and how runebommes were used in the past.

Vesterfjell described the location of the drum as follows:—[3]In Henrikdalen under a large rock lying alone in the terrain.

The stone is below the marsh between two streams.Working with her, a sketch was made of what the drum skin had looked like, together with explanations of both structure and symbols.

In 1969, Arvid Sveli and Herlaug Vonheim went on an expedition into the mountains to find one of the last remaining drums, and found it after an intense exploration in the inaccessible Henrikdalen.