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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 Komi reindeer herder Marie Terentéva, a nomad,  disassembles spruce poles that hold up her chum, while others work on other chums.
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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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  • 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 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, 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, 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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  • 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, 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, 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, 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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  • 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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  • 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, 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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  • A nomadic Komi reindeer herder wears traditional reindeer boots and malitsa robe.
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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.
    RUe 070416-062.jpg
  • 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, Katerina Vaucheskaya, a member of the last nomadic Komi reindeer herding clan, arranges reindeer skins in the family's  their chum (tepee). Note the glass window in the background, a rare modern concession.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, 72-year old nomadic reindeer herder Marie Vaucheskaya, of the Komi clan, holds up a temporary pen.
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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.  Behind him, a woman stands in a malitsa robe and reindeer skin mukluks.
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  • A woman shops in an outdoor market in the northern port city of Arkhangel'sk Russia
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  • Apitak Iqaqrialu, an Inuit elder, sits on frozen tundra north of the Arctic Circle on Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada.
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  • Passengers and their baggage crowd a Russian helicopter flying from Arkhangel'sk to remote arctic villages.
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  • An elderly Inuit hunter relaxes, bathed in midnight sun.
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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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  • Inuit hunter Jayko Apak jumps open water on Canada's frozen Baffin Bay in search of seal's breathing hole.
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  • Inuit hunter & kayak maker, Peter Paniloo wears traditional caribou parka, Pond Inlet, Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada.
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  • Inuit hunter & kayak maker, Peter Paniloo wears traditional caribou parka, Pond Inlet, Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada.
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  • An Inuit hunter surveys the landscape near Pond Inlet on northern Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada.
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  • Arctic Ocean, near Cape Bathurst, Northwest Territories, Canada.	An explorer reads a chart in a tent while sled dogs wait outside.
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