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  • Bora Indians of the Amazon make bark cloth from palm leaves, which they use for both clothing and artworks, such as this one, depicting sacred anacondas.
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  • Native American prayer cloths adorn aspen trees at a sacred site in the Saskatchewan River Valley near Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada.
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  • Native American prayer cloths adorn aspen trees at a sacred site in the Saskatchewan River Valley near Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada.
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  • Native American prayer cloths adorn aspen trees at a sacred site in the Saskatchewan River Valley near Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada.
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  • Native American prayer cloths adorn aspen trees at a sacred site in the Saskatchewan River Valley near Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada.
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  • Native American prayer cloths adorn aspen trees at a sacred site in the Saskatchewan River Valley near Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada.
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  • Photographers stand among Native American prayer cloths that adorn aspen trees at a sacred site in the Saskatchewan River Valley near Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada.
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  • Native American prayer cloths adorn aspen trees at a sacred site in the Saskatchewan River Valley near Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada.
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  • Native American prayer cloths adorn aspen trees at a sacred site in the Saskatchewan River Valley near Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada.
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  • Native American prayer cloths adorn aspen trees at a sacred site in the Saskatchewan River Valley near Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada.
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  • Native American prayer cloths adorn aspen trees at a sacred site in the Saskatchewan River Valley near Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada.
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  • Native American prayer cloths adorn aspen trees at a sacred site in the Saskatchewan River Valley near Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada.
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  • A photographer frames Native American prayer cloths that adorn aspen trees at a sacred site in the Saskatchewan River Valley near Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada.
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  • Native American prayer cloths adorn aspen trees at a sacred site in the Saskatchewan River Valley near Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada.
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  • Native American prayer cloths adorn aspen trees at a sacred site in the Saskatchewan River Valley near Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada.
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  • Native American prayer cloths adorn aspen trees at a sacred site in the Saskatchewan River Valley near Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada.
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  • An Amazon Indian woman of the Bora tribe near Iquitos, Peru, prepares to dance for tourists - perhaps a sideline to a more modern, workaday job.
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  • Amazon Indians of the Bora tribe near Iquitos, Peru prepare to dance for tourists - often a sideline to more modern workaday jobs.
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  • Amazon Indians of the Bora tribe near Iquitos, Peru prepare to dance for tourists - often a sideline to more modern workaday jobs.
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  • Amazon Indians of the Bora tribe near Iquitos, Peru dance for tourists - often a sideline to more modern workaday jobs.
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  • Amazon Indians of the Bora tribe near Iquitos, Peru prepare to dance for tourists - perhaps a sideline to more modern workaday jobs.
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  • A horseman tries on a serape woven by a homesteader at her family's homestead in Peru's Cordillera Vilcabamba.
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  • Uygar women relax in an outdoor fabric shop they run in a bazaar near Kashgar (Kashi), a town on the ancient Silk Road in Xinjiang, China.
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  • A Nepali woman weaves on a treadle loom at her home in a in a village in the foothills of Nepal's Himalaya.
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  • A Nepali woman weaves on a treadle loom at her home in a in a village in the foothills of Nepal's Himalaya.
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  • A Nepali woman weaves on a treadle loom at her home in a in a village in the foothills of Nepal's Himalaya.
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  • Buddhist icons adorn a temple in Lhasa, Tibet, China.
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  • CHINA, TIBET, LHASA. Tibetan Buddhist prayer flags & scrolls tied to a bridge to ensure safe passage.
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  • Mannequins display underwear, clothing and socks in a store window in Lima, Peru. Outside a hawker lures people to buy gold and silver.
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  • Mannequins display underwear, clothing and socks in a store window in Lima, Peru.
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  • A Mongolian throat singer performs at a concert in Ulaanbaatar.
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  • Buddhist Tsam dancers dressed as Tsagaan Uuvgon ("old white man") and Buga (the deer) , wait to perform at the national naadam festival in Ulaanbaator, Mongolia.
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  • A Buddhist Tsam dancer waits to perform at the national naadam festival in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
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  • Sherpa elder Kunchok Chombi relaxes by a window in a house in Namche Bazaar, Khumbu region, Nepal.
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  • Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada. Inuit hunter, Jayko Apak (MR) waits for seals on ice floe near Clyde River.
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  • Sherpa elder Kunchok Chombi drinks yak butter tea by a window in a house in Namche Bazaar, the biggest town in Nepal's Khumbu region.
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  • Sherpa elder Kunchok Chombi relaxes by a window in a house in Namche Bazaar, Khumbu region, Nepal.
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  • A poster for the Russian military encourages recruitment for a career in what is otherwise obligatory two year service for all men in the country.
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  • A poster for the Russian military encourages recruitment for a career in what is otherwise obligatory two year service for all men in the country.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Arthum Khantazeski, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder, navigates his sled across a half-melted tundra bog as he steers the herd towards its next destination.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Arthum Khantazeski, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder, navigates his sled across a half-melted tundra bog as he steers the herd towards its next destination.
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  • Every few years the nomadic Komi reindeer herding clan selects a new leader.  In 2006 it was Vasily Terentév, Marie Terenteva's younger son.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a few men from the last nomadic clan of Komi reindeer herders live on the land (without tents), while waiting for cows in the herd to calve.  Left to right: Vasily Terentév, Arthum Khantazeski, Vasily Chuprov, Alexei Semyashkin, and Alexei Vauchesky.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Arthum Khantazeski, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder, approaches the one of the spring's first newborn calves to check its health.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Arthum Khantazeski, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder, watches – and sometimes directs – the herd movement as cows begin to calve.  The group’s objective is to keep them in one place during this crucial period, before mosquitoes force both people and caribou to move to higher ground in nearby mountains.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, reindeer harnessed to a sled graze on vast fields of lichen from the genus Cladonia, (which abounds in the foreground in this image and is sometimes mistakenly called reindeer “moss.”)
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a few men from the last nomadic clan of Komi reindeer herders live on the land (without tents), while waiting for cows in the herd to calve.
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  • As rapidly-approaching spring melts snow in the Russian arctic, Alexei Semyashkin, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder, charges with his team through an interface of tundra and taiga forests.
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  • As rapidly-approaching spring melts snow on the arctic Russian tundra, Alexei Semyashkin, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder,  charges with his team through a pool atop the permafrost.  Within weeks these pools will generate enough mosquitoes to drive both men and reindeer nearly insane, at which point they will migrate again to drier mountains further north.
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  • In the midst of a rainstorm north of the Arctic Circle in Russia, reindeer wait in a temporary pen to be harnessed by nomadic Komi herders.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a shopkeeper tends her store in Snopa village, which is primarily occupied by ethnic Russians, but where the nomadic Komi reindeer herders also periodically procure fresh food, staples and vodka.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, men from the last nomadic clan of Komi reindeer herders eat and drink in their chum (tepee), waiting for the calving season to begin. Left to right:  Alexei Semyashkin , Alexei Vauchesky, Arthum Khantazeski, and Fyodor “Fedya” Vanutá (who is actually Nenet, not Komi, and unrelated to anyone else).
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  • Nomadic reindeer herder Fyodor “Fedya” Vanutá drives his sled across the melting tundra while migrating with the last remaining Komi clan still to live on the land.  Notably, though, Fyodor is a Nenet, born to a different reindeer herding culture.
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  • Nomadic reindeer herder Fyodor “Fedya” Vanutá drives his sled across the tundra while migrating with the last remaining Komi clan still to live on the land.  Notably, though, Fyodor is a Nenet, born to a different reindeer herding culture.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, 77-year old Marie Terentéva, a matriarch of the last nomadic Komi reindeer herding clan, serves dinner to her son Vasily  in the family's chum (tepee).
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Rema Chuprova, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder,  displays a photo of her family from the 1950’s.  Today, there are no remaining young married couples and no children in this group.  Few modern women want to live on the tundra, and this threatens imminent collapse of their lifestyle.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Vasily Chuprov, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder,  repairs an aging Russian snowmobile the group uses for finding and herding their animals after nightly grazing in the wild.  Most men in the group have high mechanical skills after serving their mandatory two years in the military.  Ironically, the annual top prize for a regional reindeer-sled race is a snowmobile!
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, 77-year old Marie Terentéva, a member of the last nomadic Komi reindeer herding clan, relaxes by the wood stove in her cozy chum (tepee), which is much warmer than sub-freezing temperatures outside.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Piotr Terentév, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder, fishes with primitive gear through a hole chopped in a frozen stream.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Piotr Terentév, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder, drives his team along a dangerous melting stream in search of fishing holes.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Piotr Terentév, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder, surveys the vast, frozen tundra as his reindeer rest from wallowing through deep, wet spring snow.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Piotr Terentév, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder, drives his team across the tundra, where spring snow is soft enough to make travel difficult.
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  • After a day of sledding north of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a nomadic group of Komi reindeer herders assembles its chums (tepees) around their pre-placed belongings.  Pictured here is 72-year old Marie Vaucheskaya, one of the clan's last remaining matriarchs.
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  • After a day of sledding north of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a nomadic group of Komi reindeer herders assembles its chums (tepees) around their pre-placed belongings.  By the time the chums are erected, fires will be going in the stoves and tea almost ready.
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  • Because antlers are valuable for Chinese medicine, Arthum Khantazeski, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder who lives north of the Arctic Circle in Russia, saws one off before the animal drops it naturally while grazing in the wild.  According to Arthum, this is not painful.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, reindeer herded by a nomadic Komi clan charge across the tundra through heavy whiteout fog.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a Komi reindeer-herding clan travels across the tundra through heavy whiteout fog that makes navigation difficult.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a Komi reindeer-herding clan travels across the tundra through heavy whiteout fog that makes navigation difficult.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, reindeer crush together in panic and climb atop each other in a temporary pen as nomadic Komi reindeer herders capture some of them to pull their sleds.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, reindeer crush together in panic and climb atop each other in a temporary pen as nomadic Komi reindeer herders capture some of them to pull their sleds.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, reindeer crush together in panic and climb atop each other in a temporary pen as nomadic Komi reindeer herders capture some of them to pull their sleds.
    RUe 070416-077.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, members of the last remaining nomadic Komi clan herd reindeer into a temporary pen where they can select animals to pull their sleds.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, 77-year old Marie Terentéva, wears a reindeer-skin lined malitsa robe to keep her warm as she waits to herd reindeer into the pen. She is one of the matriarchs of the last nomadic Komi reindeer herding clan.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, 77-year old Marie Terentéva, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder,  walks in front of spruce trees in a taiga forest while waiting for reindeer to be captured to pull her sled.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, 77-year old Marie Terentéva, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder, prepares one of her sleds for migration, while another herder goes to fetch the animals.
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  • As a Komi reindeer herding clan prepares to move, Maria Terenteva and her son Piotr Terentev dissassemble the poles off their  chum (tepee). Piece by piece, everything will be loaded onto reindeer-driven sleds and driven across the tundra north of the Arctic Circle in Russia.
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  • During a rare time to relax, north of the Arctic Circle in Russia,  women of the last nomadic Komi reindeer herding clan gather for tea and biscuits in Marie Terentéva’s chum.  Left to Right:  Katerina ("Katya") Vaucheskaya,  Rema Chuprova  & Marie Terentéva.
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  • 70+ year old Rema Chuprova, a member of the last nomadic Komi reindeer herding clan, relaxes in a cozy chum (tepee), which is much warmer than sub-freezing temperatures outside, north of the Arctic Circle in Russia.
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  • 70+ year old Rema Chuprova, a member of the last nomadic Komi reindeer herding clan, relaxes in a cozy chum (tepee), which is much warmer than sub-freezing temperatures outside, north of the Arctic Circle in Russia.
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  • Katerina ("Katya") Vaucheskaya, a member of the last nomadic Komi reindeer herding clan, relaxes in a cozy chum (tepee), which is much warmer than sub-freezing temperatures outside, north of the Arctic Circle in Russia.
    RUe 070415-032.jpg
  • During a rare time to relax north of the Arctic Circle in Russia,  the women of the last nomadic Komi reindeer herding clan gather for tea and biscuits in Marie Terentéva’s chum.  Left to Right:  Marie and Katerina Vaucheskaya (ages 72 & 38), Rema Chuprova (70+) & Marie Terentéva (77).
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, 77-year old Marie Terentéva, a member of the last nomadic Komi reindeer herding clan, relaxes by the wood stove in her cozy chum (tepee), which is much warmer than sub-freezing temperatures outside.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Piotr Terentev, of the the last nomadic Komi reindeer herder, slows down a sled to keep it from running over reindeer as their caravan descends into a stream bed.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, men in the the last nomadic Komi reindeer herding clan slow down sleds to keep them from running over reindeer as they descend into a stream bed.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, men in the the last nomadic Komi reindeer herding clan slow down sleds to keep them from running over reindeer as they descend into a stream bed.
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  • A reindeer caravan herded by the last nomadic Komi clan crosses vast frozen tundra north of the Arctic Circle, near Nizhnyaya Pesha, Russia. Driving this sled is Stass Pan'kov.
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  • A reindeer caravan herded by the last nomadic Komi clan crosses vast frozen tundra north of the Arctic Circle, near Nizhnyaya Pesha, Russia.
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  • A reindeer caravan herded by the last nomadic Komi clan crosses vast frozen tundra north of the Arctic Circle, near Nizhnyaya Pesha, Russia.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder harnesses domesticated animals to his sled in order to move camp from one grazing area to the next. Behind him is a portable pen used to capture the animals.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia,  nomadic Komi reindeer herders hold up netting of a temporary pen against a crush of animals.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, members of the last nomadic Komi clan herd reindeer into a temporary pen where they can select animals to pull their sleds.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder displays his knife scabbard that hangs from a traditional decorated belt. The tooth is from a bear he killed.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, nomadic Komi reindeer herder Stass Pan‛kov rests on a stick as he waits for the reindeer herd to arrive to pull his sleds.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, writer Gretel Ehrlich laughs with Katerina ("Katya") Vaucheskaya, a member of the last nomadic Komi reindeer herding clan, who is wearing a traditional malitsa robe as she loads her sled to migrate to another camp.
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  • As a Komi reindeer herding clan prepares to move, they strip a canvas cover off a chum, exposing the warm reindeer skin lining below.  Piece by piece, everything will be loaded onto reindeer-driven sleds and driven across the tundra north of the Arctic Circle in Russia.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Vasily Vauchesky, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder, bides time on a sled as he spends two weeks on the tundra, without a tent, watching the herd.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a homemade pair of skis (with skins on the bottom) sits atop a nomadic Komi reindeer herder's sled.  These are often left loaded from one camp to the next.  In the background are chums (tepees).
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  • Passengers and their baggage crowd a Russian helicopter flying from Arkhangel'sk to remote arctic villages.
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  • A woman shops in an outdoor market in the northern port city of Arkhangel'sk Russia
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  • A couple walks along First Avenue near the United Nations Building in New York City.
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