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Indigenous people:  Khanty : Yamal

 

  • Russia;tent;chum;summer;family;woman;children;lavvu;Indigenous people/Khanty/Yamal;Place: Shuryshkarsky region, Kharjer
    Welcome to our home!

    Yelena Longortova and her daughters in front of the Khanty summer chum/tent

     
  • Russia;Indigenous people/Khanty/Yamal;tent;woman;Place: Shuryshkarsky region, Kharjer;reindeer skinn
    Preparing skinn with face covered by the shawl

    A working Khanty woman. The way of preparing skin is the similar as Nenets do. Look at the shawl, a married khanty woman should cover her face - maybe a Muslim tradition because of close relation to the Tatars.

     
  • Russia;Indigenous people/Khanty/Yamal;milk;breast;woman;Kharjer;Kharer
    Jelena gives breast-milk to her baby boy

    Jelena Longortova gives breast-milk to her baby boy. Look at the colourful shawl, a married khanty woman should cover her face - not only when she feed her baby. It maybe a muslim tradition because of close relation to the Siberian Tatars.

     
  • Russia;gifts;holly;worship;religion;sacred place;sacrifice place;Indigenous people/Khanty/Yamal;Siberia
    Doing a sacrifice

    Old man Filipp Makarov doing a donation on the family sacriface place in Nymvozhgort

     
  • Indigenous people/Khanty/Yamal;holly;religion;worship;sacred place;sacrifice place;head of reindeer
    A sacrifice

    A head of a reindeer is hung up in a tree as a sacrifice

     
  • Russia;Place: Shuryshkarsky region, Ovgort;sacred place;graveyard;Indigenous people/Khanty/Yamal;meal;coffin
    By the family cemetery

    Yury Kurtamov at having a memory meal at the family cemetery - a traditional Khanty graveyard

     
  • Russia;cow house;cattle-shed;Indigenous people/Khanty/Yamal;Place: Shuryshkarsky region, Karjer;animal house
    A small Khanty cattle house

    The Khanty cattle house is interesting because it is similar to Saami animal houses (for cows or sheep) with possibilities for drying grass.

     
  • Russia;drying place for gras;gras;grass;cow;Cattle;Place: Shuryshkarsky region, Ovgort (close to);Indigenous people/Khanty/Yamal
    Cow in front of a cattle-shed

    The Khanty cattle house (with cow in front) is interesting because it is similar to Saami animal houses (for cows or sheep) with possibilities for drying grass.

     
  • gun;history;Place: Shuryshkarsky region, Ovgort;Indigenous people/Khanty/Yamal;Russia;arm;rifle
    Weapons from Yermak-time

    Old rifles from museum in Ovgort (the Christian cross on the butt is not cut on the original photo)

     

 

 

 


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