PHOTO OF THE DAY December 25, 2004  

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Where Siberia, Russia
When 1996
Photographer Maria Stenzel

"At the heart of traditional Nenets life is the domesticated reindeer. Reindeer, also called caribou, are everything to the Nenets: their food, clothing, shelter, transportation, even their sense of identity."

(Text from "Nenets: Surviving on the Siberian Tundra," March 1998, National Geographic magazine)

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

National Geographic magazine: Remote Russia
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