Alexandr Polyakov
Inside a mobile cabin covered with fabric two Nganasan hunters share a fish
1987
Inside a mobile cabin covered with fabric two Nganasan hunters share a fish
1987
January 30, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Alexandr Polyakov
Inside a mobile cabin covered with fabric two Nganasan hunters share a fish
1987
Inside a mobile cabin covered with fabric two Nganasan hunters share a fish
1987
Fotito de hoy.
En la Península de Taymyr el baile de los nganasan.
2017
En la Península de Taymyr el baile de los nganasan.
2017
January 14, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Fotito de hoy.
En la Península de Taymyr el baile de los nganasan.
2017
En la Península de Taymyr el baile de los nganasan.
2017
Ritual Mask
19th century
Nganasan
Siberian Ethnography Museum
19th century
Nganasan
Siberian Ethnography Museum
February 25, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Ritual Mask
19th century
Nganasan
Siberian Ethnography Museum
19th century
Nganasan
Siberian Ethnography Museum
Not that I expect she has ever heard of the Nganasan or any other Native Siberian peoples.
February 15, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Not that I expect she has ever heard of the Nganasan or any other Native Siberian peoples.
The Soviets under the policy of collectivization, actively tried to destroy the Nganasan because they determined that tribal life was incompatible with Soviet dictim.
The Soviet has never been friends to Native peoples.
The Soviet has never been friends to Native peoples.
February 15, 2025 at 10:44 PM
The Soviets under the policy of collectivization, actively tried to destroy the Nganasan because they determined that tribal life was incompatible with Soviet dictim.
The Soviet has never been friends to Native peoples.
The Soviet has never been friends to Native peoples.
INDUMENTARIA de la ETNIA NGANASAN, Pueblo Indígena que habita en la PENÍNSULA de TAYMYR, en el Note de SIBERIA (RUSIA).
March 18, 2026 at 5:53 PM
INDUMENTARIA de la ETNIA NGANASAN, Pueblo Indígena que habita en la PENÍNSULA de TAYMYR, en el Note de SIBERIA (RUSIA).
A Tatar Shaman, Minusinsk, Siberia 1910
A large minority of people in Siberia, follow ancient religio-cultural practices of Shamanism
Siberian Shamans, reenacting their dreams wherein they had rescued soul of client, were conducted in, Oroch, Altai, and Nganasan healing séances
#archaeohistories
A large minority of people in Siberia, follow ancient religio-cultural practices of Shamanism
Siberian Shamans, reenacting their dreams wherein they had rescued soul of client, were conducted in, Oroch, Altai, and Nganasan healing séances
#archaeohistories
November 23, 2024 at 9:08 PM
A Tatar Shaman, Minusinsk, Siberia 1910
A large minority of people in Siberia, follow ancient religio-cultural practices of Shamanism
Siberian Shamans, reenacting their dreams wherein they had rescued soul of client, were conducted in, Oroch, Altai, and Nganasan healing séances
#archaeohistories
A large minority of people in Siberia, follow ancient religio-cultural practices of Shamanism
Siberian Shamans, reenacting their dreams wherein they had rescued soul of client, were conducted in, Oroch, Altai, and Nganasan healing séances
#archaeohistories
Fotos de distintas etnias del Ártico
1-Dolgan
2-Nganasan
3-Yupik
4-Nenets
1-Dolgan
2-Nganasan
3-Yupik
4-Nenets
September 28, 2023 at 10:35 AM
Fotos de distintas etnias del Ártico
1-Dolgan
2-Nganasan
3-Yupik
4-Nenets
1-Dolgan
2-Nganasan
3-Yupik
4-Nenets
De mi colección particular, dibujo de artista nganasan comprado en el pueblo de Volochanka, el autor esa misma noche se emborrachó y fue encontrado muerto congelado en el exterior al día siguiente, por lo que probablemente es su último dibujo.
February 7, 2025 at 2:51 PM
De mi colección particular, dibujo de artista nganasan comprado en el pueblo de Volochanka, el autor esa misma noche se emborrachó y fue encontrado muerto congelado en el exterior al día siguiente, por lo que probablemente es su último dibujo.
📢 Exciting news! We’re preparing to release a Nganasan language corpus that will include traditional stories about shamans—key figures in Nganasan culture. Shamans heal, protect, and sometimes bring disaster. Until then, let’s explore some of their most fascinating legends! #Nganasan #Folklore
February 3, 2025 at 8:26 AM
New open access paper out in Language Dynamics and Change. Examines the GramAdapt sociolinguistic typology questionnaire with Mawng-Kunbarlang language contact and Tundra Enets-Nganasan as illustrative examples (plz tag my co-authors if they're here!)
brill.com/view/journal...
brill.com/view/journal...
brill.com
January 22, 2025 at 4:38 AM
New open access paper out in Language Dynamics and Change. Examines the GramAdapt sociolinguistic typology questionnaire with Mawng-Kunbarlang language contact and Tundra Enets-Nganasan as illustrative examples (plz tag my co-authors if they're here!)
brill.com/view/journal...
brill.com/view/journal...
1. Demnime, a Nganasan shaman of the Russian Far North, drums in a ceremony to journey to another world. This was filmed in 1977 but wasn't released in full until two decades later.
From "The Shaman" by Lennart Meri (1997)
From "The Shaman" by Lennart Meri (1997)
May 20, 2025 at 6:43 PM
1. Demnime, a Nganasan shaman of the Russian Far North, drums in a ceremony to journey to another world. This was filmed in 1977 but wasn't released in full until two decades later.
From "The Shaman" by Lennart Meri (1997)
From "The Shaman" by Lennart Meri (1997)
#Russia’s ethnic minorities – including Arctic Indigenous ethnicities Chukchi, Inuit, Itelmen, Koryak, Nenets, Nganasan, Udege & Saami – are vastly overrepresented in the death toll of the #war in #Ukraine.
Read more 👉 blogs.lse.ac.uk/crp/2025/08/...
Maria Vyushkova @demsecinstitute.bsky.social
Read more 👉 blogs.lse.ac.uk/crp/2025/08/...
Maria Vyushkova @demsecinstitute.bsky.social
August 4, 2025 at 2:08 PM
#Russia’s ethnic minorities – including Arctic Indigenous ethnicities Chukchi, Inuit, Itelmen, Koryak, Nenets, Nganasan, Udege & Saami – are vastly overrepresented in the death toll of the #war in #Ukraine.
Read more 👉 blogs.lse.ac.uk/crp/2025/08/...
Maria Vyushkova @demsecinstitute.bsky.social
Read more 👉 blogs.lse.ac.uk/crp/2025/08/...
Maria Vyushkova @demsecinstitute.bsky.social
Suku Momde is a Nganasan girl (the indigenous people of Taymyr), hereditary #Verbena. Her mother wanted to invoke the ancient goddess Mou-nyama, but disappeared during the ritual. Now Suku is trying to survive on her own in the magical world of Norilsk.
Art by SS
#MageTheAscension #WoD #MtA
Art by SS
#MageTheAscension #WoD #MtA
May 29, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Suku Momde is a Nganasan girl (the indigenous people of Taymyr), hereditary #Verbena. Her mother wanted to invoke the ancient goddess Mou-nyama, but disappeared during the ritual. Now Suku is trying to survive on her own in the magical world of Norilsk.
Art by SS
#MageTheAscension #WoD #MtA
Art by SS
#MageTheAscension #WoD #MtA
📖 These are just a few of the many Nganasan shaman stories. Want to read more? With our upcoming Nganasan corpus, you’ll soon have access to original texts about these powerful figures. A rare glimpse into an ancient tradition! #Shamanism #NganasanLanguage
February 7, 2025 at 1:26 PM
📖 These are just a few of the many Nganasan shaman stories. Want to read more? With our upcoming Nganasan corpus, you’ll soon have access to original texts about these powerful figures. A rare glimpse into an ancient tradition! #Shamanism #NganasanLanguage
...Nenets, Nganasan, Forest Enets, Tundra Enets and Selkup, or the extinct Liv, Krevinian, Akkala Saami, Kemi Saami, Mator, Yurats and Kamas...then yes, those are the only two.
September 25, 2023 at 3:21 PM
...Nenets, Nganasan, Forest Enets, Tundra Enets and Selkup, or the extinct Liv, Krevinian, Akkala Saami, Kemi Saami, Mator, Yurats and Kamas...then yes, those are the only two.
Oh, a ten-year-old girl again killed someone.
Suku Momde, #Verbena, Nganasan girl. Focus: cut herself, blood magic.
Art by alptraum.ка
#MageTheAscension #MtA #WorldOfDarkness #WoD
Suku Momde, #Verbena, Nganasan girl. Focus: cut herself, blood magic.
Art by alptraum.ка
#MageTheAscension #MtA #WorldOfDarkness #WoD
July 28, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Oh, a ten-year-old girl again killed someone.
Suku Momde, #Verbena, Nganasan girl. Focus: cut herself, blood magic.
Art by alptraum.ка
#MageTheAscension #MtA #WorldOfDarkness #WoD
Suku Momde, #Verbena, Nganasan girl. Focus: cut herself, blood magic.
Art by alptraum.ка
#MageTheAscension #MtA #WorldOfDarkness #WoD
Japanese, Tungusic, Samoyedic (Nganasan), Pre-Turkic, Pre-Mongolic, Ket
Happens elsewhere too, no? Canarese < PDrav, Tillamook < PSal, positionally via */f/ in some Iranic.
But which in Siberia are we thinking? Japanese & some Japonic, some Tungusic, Pre-Turkic, any other?
But which in Siberia are we thinking? Japanese & some Japonic, some Tungusic, Pre-Turkic, any other?
April 2, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Japanese, Tungusic, Samoyedic (Nganasan), Pre-Turkic, Pre-Mongolic, Ket
#Livonian kouvõ, €Finnish and #Votic kaivaa for to dig or dig up, and more distantly from eastern FU languages for spade: #Erzya, kojme; #Moksha, kajmä; #Nganasan, kaibu, etc. Even so, the two #PIE roots – *keue-, swelling, arch, cavity, and *keup-, a hollow (see #Palli)
#Etymology #Etümoloogia
2/5
#Etymology #Etümoloogia
2/5
May 13, 2025 at 6:30 AM
#Livonian kouvõ, €Finnish and #Votic kaivaa for to dig or dig up, and more distantly from eastern FU languages for spade: #Erzya, kojme; #Moksha, kajmä; #Nganasan, kaibu, etc. Even so, the two #PIE roots – *keue-, swelling, arch, cavity, and *keup-, a hollow (see #Palli)
#Etymology #Etümoloogia
2/5
#Etymology #Etümoloogia
2/5
So Nganasan people have brought us shamanism, if I interpret correctly.
Thank you so much.
Thank you so much.
January 18, 2026 at 2:00 PM
So Nganasan people have brought us shamanism, if I interpret correctly.
Thank you so much.
Thank you so much.
JRR Tolkien's Silmarillion has the Awakening of the Elves roughly where Kazakhstan, Eastern Steppes into Siberia would be
This is straight up the peopling of prehistoric Scandinavia by Siberian ancestors of Sami / Fins, JRR Tolkien turns that into Precursor Elves.
tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Great_J...
This is straight up the peopling of prehistoric Scandinavia by Siberian ancestors of Sami / Fins, JRR Tolkien turns that into Precursor Elves.
tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Great_J...
July 5, 2026 at 11:36 AM
JRR Tolkien's Silmarillion has the Awakening of the Elves roughly where Kazakhstan, Eastern Steppes into Siberia would be
This is straight up the peopling of prehistoric Scandinavia by Siberian ancestors of Sami / Fins, JRR Tolkien turns that into Precursor Elves.
tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Great_J...
This is straight up the peopling of prehistoric Scandinavia by Siberian ancestors of Sami / Fins, JRR Tolkien turns that into Precursor Elves.
tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Great_J...
In February we continued presenting texts from the upcoming corpora – that time it was Nganasan’s turn! We told you a few stories about Nganasan shamanism and how it is represented in lokal folklore - bsky.app/profile/proj...
May 8, 2025 at 8:34 AM
In February we continued presenting texts from the upcoming corpora – that time it was Nganasan’s turn! We told you a few stories about Nganasan shamanism and how it is represented in lokal folklore - bsky.app/profile/proj...
👩⚕️ Female shamans, though rare, played a crucial role in Nganasan society. They connected with spirits, healed the sick, and passed on their gifts to future generations. One of the most famous was Shamaness Nejming.
February 4, 2025 at 8:45 AM
👩⚕️ Female shamans, though rare, played a crucial role in Nganasan society. They connected with spirits, healed the sick, and passed on their gifts to future generations. One of the most famous was Shamaness Nejming.