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Two Nenets fishermen, Maxim Nyatch (left) & Ivan Tibitchy, leave an offering of a small carved figure at a sacred site on the 'Sacred Hill of Yuribey'. The site contains the skulls and anters of sacrificed reindeer as well as the casted antlers of sacred reindeer.Yuribey, Tazovsky region, Gydan Peninsula, Yamal, Siberia, Russia
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Aerial view of tundra in the Tazovsky region. The hill in the distance is Lyadgayseda, a sacred site of the local Nenets people. Gydan Peninsula. Yamal, Siberia, Russia
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Aerial view of tundra in the Tazovsky region. The hill in the distance is Lyadgayseda, a sacred site of the local Nenets people. Gydan Peninsula. Yamal, Siberia, Russia
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Two Nenets fishermen, Maxim Nyatch (left) & Ivan Tibitchy leave an offering of a small carved figure at a sacred site on the 'Sacred Hill of Yuribey'. The site contains the skulls and anters of sacrificed reindeer as well as the casted antlers of sacred reindeer.Yuribey, Tazovsky region, Gydan Peninsula, Yamal, Siberia, Russia
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Ivan Tibitchy, a Nenets fishermen, makes an offering of some vodka at a sacred site on the 'Sacred Hill of Yuribey'. The site contains the skulls and anters of sacrificed reindeer as well as the casted antlers of sacred reindeer.Yuribey, Tazovsky region, Gydan Peninsula, Yamal, Siberia, Russia
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A Nenets sacred site on the 'Sacred Hill of Yuribey'. The site contains the skulls and anters of sacrificed reindeer as well as the casted antlers of sacred reindeer.Yuribey, Tazovsky region, Gydan Peninsula, Yamal, Siberia, Russia
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A Nenets sacred site on the 'Sacred Hill of Yuribey'. The site contains the skulls and anters of sacrificed reindeer as well as the casted antlers of sacred reindeer.Yuribey, Tazovsky region, Gydan Peninsula, Yamal, Siberia, Russia
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A Nenets sacred site near the mouth of the Yuribey River. Tazovsky region, Gydan Peninsula, Yamal, Siberia, Russia
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A Nenets offering at the sacred site of Huunghor-Sala. Gydan Peninsula, W.Siberia, Russia. 2000
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A Nenets offering at the sacred site of Huunghor-Sala. Gydan Peninsula, W.Siberia, Russia. 2000
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Ngamteydu (flowering hill) is a sacred site of the Forest Nenets of the Purovsky region of the Yamal. Western Siberia, Russia
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Ngamteydu (flowering hill) is a sacred site of the Forest Nenets of the Purovsky region of the Yamal. Western Siberia, Russia
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At an indigenous peoples festival, a young Forest Nenets girl attaches a ribbon to a sacred tree and makes a wish. Tarko-Sale, Purovsky, Yamal, Western Siberia, Russia
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Tyhyko Yar, a Nenets man makes an offering at the sacred site of Huunghor-Sala. Gydan Peninsula, W.Siberia, Russia. 2000
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Two Nenets wooden idols leant against a tree at a sacred site on the Obskaya Gulf. Yamal,Siberia, Russia.
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A pile of antlers from sacrificed reindeer mark a sacred site on the Yamal Peninsula. W.Siberia, Russia
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Tyhyko Yar, a Nenets man makes an offering at the sacred site of Huunghor-Sala. Gydan Peninsula, W.Siberia, Russia. 2000
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