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Native walrus ivory carving 'Bear' (1989) by Sergei Nikitin. Uelen, Chukotka, Siberia, Russia. 2002
RC.0210-16		 Native walrus ivory carving 'Ulu Nanok' (1987) by A. Anategin. Uelen, Chukotka, Siberia, Russia. 2002
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Standing on pressure ice, hunter Oleg Ukutagin, scans the sea ice for polar bears. Chukotka, Siberia, Russia. 2002
RC.0231-18		 Detail of a walrus hunting scene engraved onto a walrus tusk. Chukotka, Eastern Siberia. 2010
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Portrait of Yakov Vukutagin, a Chukchi hunter from Uelen. Chukotka, Siberia, Russia. 2004
RC.0432-04		 Standing by his baidarka (walrus skin boat), Yakov Vukutagin, hunts seals from the shoreline at Dezhnovka. Chukotka, Siberia, Russia. 2004
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Eskimo hunters secure the Bowhead whale from their Umiak. Point Hope. Alaska
OC.0013-00		 Chukchi hunter, Geora Eymetitin, driving his dog sled. Chukotkiy Peninsula, Chukotka, Siberia, Russia. 2002
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Artiom Yakolev, a Chukchi hunter from New Chaplino, out in a boat. Beringia National Park, Providensky Region of Chukotka. Russian Far East
RC.3001-06		 Artiom Yakovlev, a Chukchi hunter, from the village of New Chaplino. Beringia National Park, Providensky Region of Chukotka. Russian Far East
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Oleg Ukutagin with a Baidarka (Umiaq) while hunting at the floe edge. Chukotka, Siberia, Russia. 2002
RC.0229-20		 Chukchi reindeer herders skinning a dead reindeer which was killed as part of a traditional ritual sacrifice. Chukotskiy Peninsula, Chukotka, Siberia, Russia. 2010
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Chukchi boys and dogs near a hunting camp at Dezhnovka. Uelen, Chukotka, Siberia, Russia. 2004
RC.0430-22		 Hunters' huts and boats at Dezhnovka in the autumn. Uelen, Chukotka, Siberia, Russia. 2004
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Portrait of Yakov Vukutagin, a Chukchi hunter from Uelen. Chukotka, Siberia, Russia. 2004
RC.0435-15		 Standing by his baidarka (walrus skin boat), Yakov Vukutagin, hunts seals from the shoreline at Dezhnovka. Chukotka, Siberia, Russia. 2004
RC.0438-01
Sasha, a young Chukchi man, leans out of the window of a hunter's hut at Dezhnovka. Uelen, Chukotka, Siberia, Russia. 2004
RC.0440-13		 Eskimo whale hunters paddling an Umiak, made from wood & skin. Point Hope, Alaska.
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Harpoon heads carved from walrus ivory (circa 1000 B.C. - 1000.A.D.) Bering Strait, Chukotka, Russia. 2002
RC.0251-03		 Hunting scene engraved on a walrus tusk by Chukchi artist Oleg Prasov. Chukotka, Siberia, Russia. 2002
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Oleg Ukutagin drags a Baidarka (Umiaq) while hunting at the floe edge. Chukotka, Siberia, Russia. 2002
RC.0228-19		 Oleg Ukutagin untangles his dogs' traces while hunting near Cape Dezhnev. Chukotka, Siberia, Russia. 2002
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Chukchi hunter, Geora Eymetitin, rests during a journey by dog sled. Chukotka, Siberia, Russia. 2002
RC.0232-28		 Chukchi hunter, Alexei Pilanto, with a ringed seal outside his home in Uelen. Chukotka, Siberia, Russia. 2002
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Sasha Tretyakov, a Chukchi man rests on one of his moose skin covered skis. Kai'etyn, Chukotka. Siberia. Russia. 1994
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