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.
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.
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.
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