Traditional Clothing

Information on The Tundra Nenets

A group of Nenets fishermen, wearing protective anoraks against mosquitoes, haul in their fishing net on the River Taz. Tazovsky region, Yamal, Northwest Siberia, Russia

Leonid Tusido, a Nenets reindeer herder, sits on his sled at his winter pastures near Tambey. Yamal Peninsula, Western Siberia, Russia.

Valya, a Nenets woman, using a mobile phone. Yamal, Northwest Siberia, Russia.

Neseynya Serotetto, a Nenets girl, plays at the entrance to her family's tent. Yamal, Siberia, Russia

A group of Nenets fishermen, wearing protective anoraks against mosquitoes, load their catch into a wooden boat on the River Taz. Tazovsky region, Yamal, Northwest Siberia, Russia

A young Nenets woman, traditionally dressed in reindeer skin and fox fur clothing. Yar-Sale. Yamal, NW Siberia, Russia

Neseynya Serotetto, a Nenets woman, dressed in a traditional reindeer skin clothing. She has a university degree in cultural anthropology and now manages the Eagle Ethnic Camp at her home village of Yar-Sale. Yamal. NW Siberia, Russia. (2018)

A Nenets father collects his daughter from a children's playground. Gyda, Tazovsky Region, Yamal, Siberia, Russia

Neseinye Serotetto, a Nenets woman from a reindeer herding family, who manages the handicraft department and is an event organiser at the cultural centre in Yar-Sale. Yamal, NW Siberia, Russia

At a Nenets reindeer herders' camp, members of the Serotetto family pose outside their reindeer skin tent. Yamal, NW Siberia, Russia

Nenets men watching a wrestling competition during the reindeer herders' festival in Nadym. Yamal, Western Siberia, Russia

A young Nenets boy playing with a balloon at the reindeer herders' festival in Nadym. Yamal, Western Siberia, Russia

Warmly dressed in reindeer skin clothes, a young Nenets boy sleeps in a plastic sled during the Reindeer herders' festival at Nadym. Yamal, Western Siberia, Russia

Young Nenets men in traditional clothes at the reindeer herders' festival in Nadym. Yamal, Western Siberia, Russia

A Nenets reindeer herder's winter camp on the tundra in the South Tambey gas field. Yamal Peninsula, NW Siberia, Russia.

Yevdekiya Taibery, an elderly Nenets woman, sewing a pair of reindeer skin boots inside her family's tent at their winter camp. Yamal, Western Siberia, Russia

Natasha Serpevo, a Nenets reindeer herder, out checking her family's reindeer at their winter pastures on the tundra near Tambey. Yamal Peninsula, Western Siberia, Russia

Nyaka, an elderly Nenets woman, holds her grandaughter in a cradle inside their reindeer skin tent.Tambey tundra, Yamal Peninsula, Western Siberia, Russia.

Nyaka, an elderly Nenets woman, comforts her baby grandaughter in a cradle inside their reindeer skin tent. Tambey tundra, Yamal Peninsula, Western Siberia, Russia.

At their winter camp, Emma Vanuito, a Nenets woman, holds her daughter, Nenya. Tambey. Yamal Peninsula, Western Siberia, Russia.

Jakov Vanuito, a Nenets reindeer herder from the Tambey tundra. Yamal Peninsula, Western Siberia, Russia

Nenets boy, warmly dressed, on the spring migration. Yamal, Siberia, Russia. 1993

Nina Khudi, a Nenets woman scrapes a reineer skin to soften it. It will be used to make traditional skin clothes. Yamal, Siberia, Russia

Yaline Laptander, a young Nenets girl, playing with a toboggan at her family's winter camp in the Yamal. Western Siberia, Russia

A Nenets man sleeps on his snowmobile at a reindeer herders festival in the Yamal. Western Siberia, Russia

Nenets spectators use their mobile phones to photograph a reindeer race at a herders festival in the Yamal. Western Siberia, Russia

Yaline Laptander, a young Nenets girl, at her family's winter camp in the Yamal. Western Siberia, Russia

A Nenets woman leaves the post office in Nahodka with her children. Gydan Peninsula, Western Siberia, Russia.

Nenets women in traditional dress outside a reindeer herders' camp on the tundra near Nadym. Northwest Siberia, Russia

A Nenets woman leading her reindeer at a festival in Nadym. Yamal, Northwest Siberia, Russia.

Alona, a Nenets girl, plays with her family's Laika reindeer herding dog at their winter camp on the tundra. Yamal, NW Siberia, Russia

Two Nenets boys,Bora Serotetto (left) and Vanya Vilik, by a sled at a reindeer herders' winter camp. Yamal, Western Siberia, Russia.

Sara Vanuitto, a Nenets woman, in traditional dress, perform a dance using a drum. Yar-Sale, Yamal, Siberia, Russia.

A Nenets boy rests against the wall of a tent at a herders' camp on the Yamal Peninsula.W.Siberia, Russia

Nenets children playing with sleds on a frozen tundra pond. Yamal Peninsula, Western Siberia, Russia.

A group of Tundra Nenets reindeer herders at their camp on the Gydan Peninsula. Western Siberia, Russia. 2000

Galla Serotetto and her daughter Nesinye, softening reindeer skins for clothing at a Nenets summer camp. Yamal. Siberia.Russia

Nenets men at a local festival watch a bout of wrestling. Yamal. Siberia. Russia. 1993

A Nenets boy feeds bread to a reindeer yearling at a winter camp Yamal. Siberia. Russia.