Pictures of Mongolia's Reindeer People

Mongolian Reindeer Pictures: Dukha Boy with Squirrel Skins from Hunt
Mongolian Reindeer Pictures: Dukha Hunters Search for Game in Mountains
Mongolian Reindeer Pictures: Boy in Typical Dukha Camp Scene
Mongolian Reindeer Pictures: Dukha Hunters Ride into Taiga Forest
Mongolian Reindeer Pictures: Dukha Hunters Kill Moose for Food
Mongolian Reindeer Pictures: Young Dukha Maid Grazes Reindeer
Mongolian Reindeer Pictures: Dukha Woman Ties Down Reindeer
Mongolian Reindeer Pictures: Dukha Shaman Sits by Ancestral Rags
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Mongolian Reindeer Pictures: Wildlife Biologist Takes Blood Sample
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Mongolian Reindeer Pictures: Dukha Boy with Squirrel Skins from Hunt
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A Tsaatan [Dukha] shaman called Ganzorig sits before his ancestor shrine. During the communist repression, the Dukha's ancestral idols were destroyed. Since then the Dukha resorted to abstraction, representing their ancestors by a medley of rags hanging on the North side of the wigwam. The north is the side of the wigwam which never receives direct sunlightit is the direction to the portal between the world of the living and the black heaven of the ancestors.

Anthropologist Hamid Sadar

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