Lifestyles of a Reindeer Herder

By K. Kris Hirst, About.com Guide

The Nenets chum is built for easy transport and construction, with tent poles covered with animal skins. The herders move camp frequently throughout the year. Each of the chum in the camp house family groups and have central hearths. Light is let in and smoke let out through the opening made by the tent poles at the top.

Additional Sources

• Waking the Baby Mammoth: A Video Review
• Scientific Investigations of Lyuba, a photo essay
• Domestication of Reindeer
• Mammoths and Mastodons
• National Geographic: Waking the Baby Mammoth
• Domestication of Reindeer
• Oxana Kharuchi's Nenets Page

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• Nenets Reindeer Team Move Across the Yamal Peninsula
• Reindeer Herd and Nenets Herders
• The Nenets Set up a Chum
• Yuri Khudi's Home Chum, Yamal Peninsula, Siberia
• Yuri Khudi's Home Chum, Yamal Peninsula, Siberia
• Sledge and Reindeer, Nenets Encampment,

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