A Siberian shaman / medicine man / sorcerer / wizard
A Siberian shaman / medicine man / sorcerer / wizard / healer / foreteller shows his sacred tree place. Polar Circle, Siberia, Russia. April. Selkup (siberian indigenous minority) shaman Ganya (a local name) is next to a bunch of his shaman's totems (including a portrait of Lenin) hanging on sacred tree (in this case a birch, under which the box of shaman's items amgri is being kept); trad. winter clothes malitsa and footwear bakari both made of reindeer; dusk in woods near winter-hut on frozen river Taz bank;
Picture No
10870705
Media ID
42952538
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3241px x 5109px
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Credit
© Andrey Zvoznikov / www.ardea.com
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Ardea Picture Library
Picture No
10870705
Contributor Ref
ANZ-1252
