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Inuit children of the Taqqaugaq family dressed in caribou skin clothing. Baffin Is., Nunavut, Canada. 1987

Portrait of an Inuit girl wearing a caribou skin parka. Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada. 1987

Lena Slepsova, an Evenki girl from Kusur holding a frozen Nelma (white salmon) Northern Yakutia, Republic of Sakha, Russia. (2001)

Corrie, Celine & Corra Joss, young Inuit girls dressed in traditional parkas with fur hoods in the street. Ulukhaktok, (Holman Is.) NWT. Canada. 1991

Inuit children learning to use a computer at school in Igloolik, Nunavut, Canada. 1990

Inuit children from the 7th Grade at the Ataguttaluk school in Igloolik. Nunavut, Canada. 2002

Inuit girls eat raw seal liver on a summer hunting trip. Igloolik, Nunavut, Canada. 1992

Haunaq Mikkigak, an Inuit woman from Cape Dorset holding her step daughter. Baffin Is., Nunavut, Canada. 2002

Jocelyne Immaroitok, an Inuit girl from Igloolik fishing through a hole in the ice on a lake. Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada. 1992

Arnanguaq Qujaukitsok, an Inuit girl from Thule wearing a fox fur hood. Northwest Greenland. 1998

Inger Anne, a Sami mother, with her baby daughter, Inger, in traditional cradle at her christening in Kautokeino. Finnmark, North Norway. (1990)

Eqilana Simigaq, an Inuit woman, carries her son in a sealskin amaut (hooded jacket).Qeqertat, Northwest Greenland. 1980

Out of respect to the spirit of a dead seal, a Chukchi boy, Vasa Pilanto, pours over it. Chukotka, Siberia. 2002

Young Saami girl, Inger Anne, leads sled Reindeer at the start of the Spring migration. Kautokeino. Norway. 1972

Nenya Vanuito, a young Nenets girl, wearing a traditional hat with fur trim at a winter camp near Tambey. Yamal Peninsula, Western Siberia, Russia.

Nadia Takui, a Chukchi girl, dressed in a traditional reindeer skin Kerker, (knee length coverall), sitting at the edge of the polog (sleeping area) in a Yaranga (tent) at a reindeer herders' summer camp. Iultinsky District, Chukotka, Siberia, Russia

Nadia Takui, a Chukchi girl, grips the fish's tail between her teeth as she removes the scales from a grayling at a reindeer herders' summer camp on the tundra. Iultinsky District, Chukotka, Siberia, Russia

3 year old Khanty girl, Angelina Ozelova, playing outside with a pet reindeer at a Khanty reindeer herder's winter camp. Shuryshkarsky Region, Yamal, NW Siberia, Russia

Misha Elrika, an Even boy, enjoys an ice cream at -35 Celsius. Northern Evensk, Magadan Region, Eastern Siberia, Russia. 2006

Vladimir Chuprin, a Dolgan reindeer herder, holds his young son, Artiom, outside their camp on the tundra. Taymyr, Northern Siberia, Russia. 2004

Portrait of Yaline Laptander, a young Nenets girl, at her family's winter camp in the Yamal. Western Siberia, Russia

Lena Potapova and her sister Varya making Pishkij at their home in Verkhoyansk. Yakutia, Republic of Sakha, Russia. (1999)

Lena Potapova & her sisters Varya & Tanya look through a window at their home in Verkhoyansk, Yakutia, Republic of Sakha. (1999)

Two Chukchi boys, Larik Vukuchyvun (left) & Matvey Keytegin hunting seals from the snow covered shoreline. Dezhnovka, Chukotka, Siberia. 2004

Warmly dressed Inuit children play on toboggans Savissivik. NW Greenland. 1991

After waking up in the morning, Yaroslava Votgyrgina, a Chukchi girl, sticks her head out of the polog (sleeping area) in a Yaranga (tent) at a reindeer herders' summer camp. Iultinsky District, Chukotka, Siberia, Russia

Nadia Takui, a Chukchi girl, dressed in a new Kerker (reindeer skin coverall) stands by a ritual fire at the entrance of a Yaranga (tent) at the start of the Chukchi 'Festival of the Young Reindeer' at a herders' summer camp. Iultinsky District, Chukotka, Siberia, Russia.

Nadia Takui, a 9 year old girl from a Chukchi reindeer herding family. Amguema. Iultinsky District, Chukotka, Siberia, Russia

Nadia Takui takes 18 month old Rima Votgyrgina, to watch the reindeer during the Chukchi 'Festival of the Young Reindeer' out on the tundra. Iultinsky District, Chukotka, Siberia, Russia.

Lena Potapova carrying frozen milk back to her home in Verkhoyansk. Yakutia, Repuiblic of Sakha, Russia. (1999)

Kosta Serotetto, a young Nenets boy, dressed in reindeer skin clothing. Yamal. Siberia. Russia.

Alexei Eynavtagin, a Chukchi boy,from a reindeer herding family in Koryakia. Khamchatka, Siberia, Russia. 1999

Albina, A Nenets girl, poses with her pet cygnet at a summer camp near Nadym, Yamal, W.Siberia, Russia. 2000

At a Nenets reindeer herders' summer camp, two year old Juliana Laptander hugs a reindeer calf. Yamal Peninsula, NW Siberia, Russia

Two year old Daria Serotetto, a Nenets girl, watches children's cartoons on a Laptop with her father, Leova, inside the family's reindeer skin tent. Yamal. NW Siberia, Russia

Vitally Yaptunay, a young Nenets boy, from a reindeer herding family, holding a puppy called Tovik. Gyda. Tazovsky region, Yamal, Siberia, Russia

Neseynya Serotetto, a Nenets girl, plays at the entrance to her family's tent. Yamal, Siberia, Russia

Larissa Vaganove, a teaching a class of Nenets children class at a boarding school in Yar-Sale. Yamal, Siberia

Kosta Serotetto, a Nenets boy, eating raw reindeer meat with a sharp knife. Yamal. Siberia. Russia. 1993

Albina, a Nenets girl, kisses one of her family's pet reindeer calves. Nadym Tundra, Yamal, Western Siberia, Russia. 2000

Paulina Serotetto, a young Nenets girl dressed in reindeer fur clothing at a reindeer herders festival in the Yamal. Western Siberia, Russia

Paedavyaku, a five year old Nenets boy, drives a reindeer sled near his family's winter camp in the Yamal. Western Siberia, Russia

Shurik, a young Tundra Nenets boy poses with an Arctic Hare he has shot. Gydan Peninsula, Western Siberia, Russia. 2000

Nenets boy with bow & arrow hunting ptarmigan for the pot on the migration. Yamal. Siberia. Russia.

Shura Khudi, a Nenets girl, warmly dressed in reindeer skin clothing, carries snow to melt for water. Yamal, NW Siberia, Russia

Nenya Vanuito, a 2 year old Nenets girl, approaches a reindeer at her family's winter camp on the tundra near Tambey. Yamal Peninsula, Western Siberia, Russia.

Alexey Serotetto, a Nenets boy coils his lasso as he stands by a reindeer corral. Yamal. Siberia, Russia.

Oktobrina, a Nenets girl, holds a yearling reindeer at her family's winter camp on the tundra. Yamal, NW Siberia, Russia.

Yaline Laptander, a young Nenets girl, dressed in reindeer skin clothing at her family's winter camp in the Yamal. Western Siberia, Russia

A Nenets boy at the boarding school in Panaevsk washes his face in a Russian bath. Yamal. W.Siberia, Russia.

Inside a reindeer skin tent a Anastasia Pulka, a Nenets woman, comforts her baby daughter, Elvira. Yamal, Siberia, Russia

Marina Valeeva, a Komi woman, bathes her young daughter Albina in a plastic bucket inside their tent at a winter camp. Yamal, Westren Siberia, Russia

Aleksey Serotetto, a Nenets boy, proudly holds up a Whitefish that he has caught in a tundra lake. Yamal. Siberia. Russia.

A young Forest Nenets girl. The tufts of reindeer fur on her hood are from the ears of the reindeer she owns. Purovsky Region, Yamal, Western Siberia, Russia

Neseynya Serotetto, a Nenets girl, standing on a sled during a break on the migration. Yamal. Siberia. Russia.

At a Nenets reindeer herders' summer camp, two year old Juliana Laptander, plays at chopping firewood with a hatchet. Yamal Peninsula, NW Siberia, Russia

At a Nenets reindeer herders' summer camp, 5 year old Angelina Laptander, is followed by 'Timulka' her favourite Avka (pet reindeer). Yamal Peninsula, NW Siberia, Russia

Sitting on a sled two Nenets girls, Darina Khudi & Angelina Laptander (right), play at spotting reindeer through binoculars at a reindeer herders' summer camp, Yamal Peninsula, NW Siberia, Russia

Mani, a young Innu girl, plays in a tent at her family's autumn hunting camp in Labrador, Canada. 1997

Two month old Nenets boy, Denis Serotetto, lies warmly wrapped in a traditional cradle, suspended from a tent pole inside the family's reindeer skin tent. Yamal, NW Siberia, Russia

Emma Vanuito, a Nenets woman, dresses her daughter, Nenya, in traditional warm fur clothing so she can go outside and play in the cold. Tambey. Yamal Peninsula, Western Siberia, Russia.