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PHOTO OF THE DAY January 28, 2004  

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Where Yar Sale, Yamal Peninsula, Siberia, Russia
When 1996
Photographer Maria Stenzel

Nenets women wear their finest coats at the annual spring festival in Yar Sale. A woman's coat pattern identifies her as a member of a certain clan.

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Nenets: Surviving on the Siberian Tundra," March 1998, National Geographic magazine)

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