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Reindeers West Taiga, Northern Mongolia
These Reindeer Peoples’ entire existence is based around their herds of reindeer, which provide milk, skins for clothes, horn for carving and medicine, transport and occasionally, meat. The Tsaatan are part of the Tuvan ethnic group, which inhabits the Tuvan Republic of Russia. There are only about 200 Tsaatan in total, spread over 100,000 sq km of northern Mongolia. They are nomadic, often moving their small encampments every three to four weeks, searching for special types of grass and moss loved by the reindeer. The Tsaatan are strong practitioners of shamanism. West Taiga, Northern Mongolia Museo Silver Rag (Color Digital Print) Dimesion: 13.115” x 20” US$600 Edition 1/25
Tsaatan children enjoying eating reindeer bones, inside teepee with their mother. Northern Mongolia
Tsaatan man Cooking fish soup in an open hearth. Northern Mongolia
Tssatan woman pressing reindeer cheese between wooden flanks with help of stone, to drain out water from it. Northern Mongolia
A hundred and four years old Shamanist, Suyan, inside teepee, with her daughter and son-in-law. Northern Mongolia
Tsaatan couple setting out for herding reindeer. The mountain valleys of northern Mongolia are the home of the southernmost reindeer herding people in the world. They are separated from the reindeer herders of the Russian north by a broad band of more temperate forest in southern Siberia. Northern Mongolia
A hundred and four years old Shamanist, Suyan. Darkhad has remained the last and strongest pocket of shamanism left in a quickly changing Mongolia. West Taiga, Northern Mongolia.
Dukha Woman cooking reindeer meat. West Taiga, Northern Mongolia The reindeer are packed, saddled and ridden, milked, and only in desperation or other special circumstances used as food. As meat on the hoof they are insurance against an uncertain future, a resource for a disastrous Mongolia zuud – a killer snowfall following a drought that has already weakened the animals and herder.
Reindeers
West Taiga, Northern Mongolia
Reindeers West Taiga, Northern Mongolia
Reindeers
West Taiga, Northern Mongolia
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