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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a hand-made pair of skis with reindeer skins on the bottom, lies in the snow.  These are essential tools for winter mobility to the  nomadic Komi reindeer herding people.
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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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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, members of the last nomadic Komi reindeer herding clan wrap their chum (tepee) with a carefully-sewn patchwork of reindeer skins. Over this, they will place a layer of canvas.
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  • Anaconda and Jaguar skins (which are for sale) decorate a shop selling potions in an outdoor market in upper Belem, a crowded neighborhood in Iquitos, Peru.
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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, 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 wayward dog from a nearby community lies skinned and dead after chasing reindeer herded by the nomadic Komi people.
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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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  • An Anaconda skin (which is for sale) decorates a shop selling potions in an outdoor market in upper Belem, a crowded neighborhood in Iquitos, Peru.
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  • An anaconda skin hangs on the wall of a hut in San Juan de Yanayacu village in Peru's Amazon Jungle.
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  • Villagers in San Juan de Yanayacu village use a jaguar skin to hold rice they are drying in Peru's Amazon Jungle.
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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, a sled stacked with reindeer hides awaits harnessing to reindeer for ongoing migrations of the nomadic Komi 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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  • A nomadic Komi reindeer herder wears traditional reindeer boots and malitsa robe.
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  • Reindeer antlers, which can be sold as Chinese medicine, are a valuable source of secondary income for the nomadic Komi reindeer herders who live north of the Arctic Circle in Russia.  These  are carefully preserved in the spring when animals drop their horns.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a reindeer herding dog traveling with the Komi clan howls with other dogs in the group
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Katerina ("Katya") Vaucheskaya, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder, pampers her dogs as she prepares one of her sleds for migration to another camp.
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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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  • 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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  • CHINA, TIBET.  Chinese shopkeeper sells skins of endangered leopards in Lhasa's Barkor Bazaar near the Jokhang Temple.
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  • CHINA, TIBET, LHASA. Boatman carries a yak-skin coracle used to ferry people across Lhasa River.
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  • Himalaya, Nepal, A Leech draws blood from a trekker's leg.
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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, Alexei Vauchesky, Nikolai Khantazeiski and Marie Vaucheskaya, members of the last nomadic Komi reindeer herding clan, wrap their chum (tepee) first with a carefully-sewn patchwork of reindeer skins, then with a canvas covering.
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  • NUNAVUT, CANADA. Musk oxen (Ovibos moschatus) near Eureka, Ellesmere Island (Inuit name: Oomingmak, "animal with skin like a beard").
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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 hunter and his wife stretch a takin skin at their farm in Bayi village in the Tsangpo River Gorge, one of the deepest canyons in the world, in the Himalaya of eastern Tibet, China.
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  • CHINA, TIBET.  Menba woman from Payi village, north of Tsangpo River Gorge, stretches skin of takin her husband shot in nearby jungle.
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  • ARCTIC CANADA. Inuit mother prepares seal skin with Ulu knife, Pond Inlet, Baffin Island
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  • Peruvian arrieros (mule drivers) laugh around a campfire as they camp on the trail while working with a National Geographic archaeology expedition to the Cordillera Vilcabamba mountains in the Andes.  One is skinning a trout he had just caught in a stream.
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