Reindeers
West Taiga, Northern Mongolia
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.
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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