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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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, 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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  • 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 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, 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Sherpa women [Sherpanis] share yak butter tea by the wood stove in a house in Namche Bazaar, the leading town of Nepal's Khumbu region
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  • Nomadic Kyrgyz family inside felt "akoi" (yurt) near Lake Karakol.
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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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  • Mountaineers Jay Jensen & Roger Schley (MR) sit by a campfire before climbing in the Palisades region of Sierra Nevada, California (John Muir Wilderness)
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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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  • Buddhist Tsam dancers wait to perform at the national naadam festival in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.  Masks include (L to R): Buga, the deer; Makhi, the bull; and their master, Tshoijoo, God of the Dead and Defender of the Faith (called Yama in Sanskrit).
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  • A Tibetan Buddhist Tsam dancer dressed as Bisman tengri, the god of wealth, entertains his companions as they  wait to perform at the national Naadam festival in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
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  • A Buddhist Tsam dancer waits to perform at the national naadam festival in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
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  • A lowland Nepali village girl stands beside her family's rice paddies near Lamosangu.  The red spot on her forehead  probably means that she is married, but could also just be applied for beauty.
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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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  • 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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  • Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada. Inuit hunter, Jayko Apak (MR) waits for seals on ice floe near Clyde River.
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  • Sherpa women (Sherpanis) in traditional garb talk about the annual Mani Rimdu festival they are attending at Nepal's Tengboche Monastery.  The woman on the left may be a nun and the one on the right is holding a jar with homemade, fermented barley "chung" (a possible offering.)
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  • A lowland Nepali village girl stands beside her family's rice paddies near Lamosangu.  The red spot on her forehead  probably means that she is married, but could also just be applied for beauty.
    L 0083.jpg
  • 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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  • Weekend cattle market at Mirpur near Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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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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  • A nomadic Komi reindeer herder waits outside of Snopa village while his companions buy supplies.
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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.
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  • With his dog aboard his sled, north of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Vasily Terentév, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder,  navigates between frozen tundra hummocks as he pushes the herd closer to areas where they want the cows to calve.
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  • Risking a dousing north of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Alexei Semyashkin, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder,  steers his sled straight through a meltwater bog on the tundra near Snopa village.
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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, Vasily Terentev prepares tea for his companions who rotate living on the land (without tents), while waiting for cows in the herd to calve.
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  • After a cold, rainy night on the tundra north of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a group of nomadic Komi reindeer herders warm up and eat a quick breakfast of bread and grilled reindeer meat in a grass-cutter’s hut near Snopa village.  Left to right:  Arthum Khantazeski, Alexei Semyashkin, Vasily Chuprov, and Alexei Vauchesky.
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  • As rapidly-approaching spring melts snow in the Russian arctic, Alexei Semyashkin, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder,  walks his team through a snowstorm at the edge of a taiga forest.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Arthum Khantazeski, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder, relaxes on his sled after a long day watching the animals owned by his clan.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Arthum Khantazeski, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder, relaxes after a long day watching the animals owned by his clan.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, domesticated reindeer charge across an interface of tundra and taiga forest near Snopa village, herded by a nomadic Komi clan.
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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, 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.”)
    RUe 070422-091.jpg
  • 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.
    RUe 070422-049.jpg
  • 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.
    RUe 070422-037.jpg
  • 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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  • 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.
    RUe 070422-032.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a herd of domesticated reindeer charges across the tundra near Snopa village.
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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, people shop in a store in Snopa village, which is primarily occupied by ethnic Russians, but where the nomadic Komi reindeer herders periodically procures 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).
    RUe 070421-121.jpg
  • 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.
    RUe 070420-138.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Katerina ("Katya") Vaucheskaya, a member of the last nomadic Komi reindeer herding clan, wears a reindeer skin malitsa robe with mittens sewed to the ends of its sleeves.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a beautifully crafted reindeer-hide satchel rests atop a nomad Komi reindeer herder's sled.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Katerina ("Katya") Vaucheskaya, a member of the last nomadic Komi reindeer herding clan, stands in front of her chum (tepee), wearing a traditional reindeer skin malitsa robe with mittens sewed to the ends of its sleeves.
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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, Piotr Terentev, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder, saws wood to heat his family's chum (tepee). Watching him is his 77-year old mother, Marie.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a trans-polar jet flies over a chum (tepee) of the vanishing Komi reindeer herding people.
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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, nomadic Komi reindeer herder Marie Vaucheskaya (age 77) carries clean snow to her chum (tepee) to melt for water.
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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, 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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