A nomadic tent made of reindeer skins, a shaman’s tambourine and a pagan idol, a false braid, a fishing trap and a doll made from a duck’s beak — the exhibition “Peoples of the North” shows the disappearing everyday culture of the indigenous population of Yamal.
The Nenets are one of the small-numbered peoples of the Far North. Today there are 2,000 of them left, and their national culture was formed more than a thousand years ago. Life in the northern taiga and tundra requires adapting to the harshest environment.
The exhibition shows what clothes the Nenets sew to save themselves from severe frosts and annoying insects, how they set up a portable tent using poles and deer hides, make fishing and hunting gear, cook food, talk with deer and create a sleeping place in the middle of the snowy Arctic desert.
This exhibition provides answers to questions that are unlikely to arise without it. What the spring snow glow is and how people are saved from snow blindness. What signs northern people believe in and why they can’t swim. How a sled is made without a single nail and why boiling water is poured into the boat. Why the expression “the muzzle will crack” is about fishing and what happens if eyes are drawn on a child’s doll.
The Forest Nenets are a people who are already surrounded by civilization, but retain their traditional way of living. Capturing and conveying their unique spiritual and material culture is one of the main goals of the Purovsky Regional Museum of Local History.
The Nenets are one of the small-numbered peoples of the Far North. Today there are 2,000 of them left, and their national culture was formed more than a thousand years ago. Life in the northern taiga and tundra requires adapting to the harshest environment.
The exhibition shows what clothes the Nenets sew to save themselves from severe frosts and annoying insects, how they set up a portable tent using poles and deer hides, make fishing and hunting gear, cook food, talk with deer and create a sleeping place in the middle of the snowy Arctic desert.
This exhibition provides answers to questions that are unlikely to arise without it. What the spring snow glow is and how people are saved from snow blindness. What signs northern people believe in and why they can’t swim. How a sled is made without a single nail and why boiling water is poured into the boat. Why the expression “the muzzle will crack” is about fishing and what happens if eyes are drawn on a child’s doll.
The Forest Nenets are a people who are already surrounded by civilization, but retain their traditional way of living. Capturing and conveying their unique spiritual and material culture is one of the main goals of the Purovsky Regional Museum of Local History.
Exhibits are marked with AR stickers for identification purposes.
