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A Koryak woman stands in her tent home at a Koryak base camp, where
reindeer herders spend the winter. Rubber boots and reindeer-hide
clothing dry over a low fire, whose smoke wafts through the hole in
the top, as in Native American tepees. The woman bears the
Asian/Inuit features common to the ethnic peoples who have long
inhabited Kamchatka. The Koryaks' independent lifestyle resisted
collectivization during the Soviet period, and their culture has
survived quite intact.
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