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A portrait from the North. ©Øyvind Ravna Date: 1995-09 An old Nenets man who walking on the streets of Nelmin-Nos.	Komi girls In the evening sunset. ©Øyvind Ravna Date: 1995-08 "A young Nenets girl in front of the ""Wad"". The traditional way of catching reindeers for the sledges is by taking them to the ""wad"", and the women are often holding the ropes of the wad preventing the deers from running away.."	The beauties of Izhma. ©Øyvind Ravna Date: 1995-08 An komi folklore group from Izhma. Such kind of groups give a good possibility for youth to know they culture, traditions and folklore songs.
The folklore group Yologa - Echo ©Øyvind Ravna Date: 1995-08 Seven years old Maria Vylka, is sitting on a sledge together with a four footed friend.	Thinking about the past time. ©Øyvind Ravna Date: 1995-09 A portrait of a young man from Nelmin-Nos.	Varvara Kanyeva ©Øyvind Ravna Date: 1995-09 The modern and old technique is both useful in tundra. By helicopter people get food and goods and they drive by sledges in their daily life. But to day the helicopters have become so expensive that they take the profit away from the reindeer husbandry.
Women from the folklorgroup Yologa i Ust-Usa ©Øyvind Ravna Date: 1995-09 "The Nenets called the area between the river Pechora and the Ural mountains for N'arka ja, which means the great tundra, or ""the Great frozen land"" as the English polar traveller Fredrick Jackson called it. In Russian language it is translated as Bolshezemelyskaya tundra. The N'arka ja is a rich land, with a lot of good pasture for reindeers during the hectic summertime."