PHOTO OF THE DAY November 10, 2004  

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Where Siberia, Russia
When 1996
Photographer Maria Stenzel

A Nenets grandmother uses teeth and hands to turn reindeer tendon into thread. Nenets women spend many hours a week sewing coats, hats, boots, and other items from reindeer skins.

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

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