Forest Enets

About fishing

A Enets speaker explains why mosquito time is the best time to fish.

About reindeer antlers

An Enets speaker explains that reindeer antlers which fall before the month of May do not reappear until the next yea

Aleksandr Bolin

Aleksey Palchin

Alevtina Silkina

Along the Yenissey river

A man tells how he and his wife were driving a sledge along the Yenissey river.

Along the Yenissey river (2)

A woman tells how she and her husband were driving a sledge along Yenissey.

An Enets and a Russian

A traditional Enets tale about an Enets and a Russian.

An Enets and a Russian (2)

A traditional Enets tale about an Enets and a Russian, part 2.

An Enets and a Russian (3)

A traditional Enets tale about an Enets and a Russian, part 3.

An entangled rope

An Enets speaker tells a brief story about an entangled rope.

An ill reindeer

A man tells an everyday story about an ill reindeer.

An ill reindeer (2)

A man tells an everyday story about an ill reindeer, part 2.

Anatoliy Silkin

Anton Palchin

Antonina Bolina

Bait

A man tells a tale about putting baits in his straps.

Bear fat

A true story of a man, who while angling in the Sigovaja river, shot a bear and brought its fatty meat home.

Bears and fishing nets

A very short account of how bears check fishing nets installed by people on the shore for food.

The bears, the food sledge and the helicopter

A true account from a reindeer herder of his encounter with a bear family in the tundra.

Berry jam recipe

A short monologue about how to best cook berry jam.

Beware of the gulls!

A short monologue explaining how gulls eat fish from naive fishermen’s baskets.

Bitten by wasps

A story about a boy who was bitten by wasps on his way to school from the Tundra.

The black duck

A true story about two drunk friends who find a black duck but refuse to kill it to let it raise its ducklings.

A calm year

An true account contrasting a good year for Forest Enets reindeer herders to a bad one.

Chaga tea

A Forest Enets speaker explains how to prepare Chaga tea and its medicinal values.

Changes on the lake

A very short text in which a Forest Enets speaker details the landscape changes around her home.

Chat from the boat

A small chat with an Enets man during a fishing boat trip on the river.

Chat with a girl

A 1969 conversation between two Enets speakers, a man and a young girl, from the personal archive of Irina Sorokina.

A clairvoyant

A story about a man’s friendship with a prophetic shaman.

A clever dog

A true story about the speaker’s dog. His dog was very intelligent and understood what his master told him.

A clever dog

A true story about a dog stealing food during a fishing trip to the lake.

The cloudberries

A very short monologue by a Nenets speaker about cloudberries.

A contemporary chat

A very short conversation between three Forest Enets speakers.

A contemporary chat (2)

A very short conversation between three Forest Enets speakers.

A contemporary chat (3)

A very short conversation between three Forest Enets speakers.

Cooking fish

A short monologue in which a Nenets woman discusses cutting meat and fish and gives simple ways to cook them.

Cooking meat

A short monologue in which a Nenets woman discusses cutting meat and fish and gives simple ways to cook them.

Daniil Silkin

Darya Bolina

Djoa

A tale about the trickster Djoa who simulated death.

Djoa (2)

A traditional folktale about the trickster Djoa who simulated death.

Dogs in the Tundra

A very short story about the speakers dogs and their mischief in the Tundra.

The dogs’ plague

A monologue in which a Nenets speaker remembers a time when all reindeer herders dogs got infested with the plague.

Duck’s eggs

A brief monologue about duck eggs.

Duck’s nest

Recorded by Andrey Shluinsky, Natalya Stoynova and Maria Ovsyannikova in 2010.

Ducks

A short monologue uttered by a lake and wondering about ducks’ whereabouts.

Ducks move their eggs

Recorded by Andrey Shluinsky, Natalya Stoynova and Maria Ovsjannikova in 2010.

Ekaterina Glibchenko

Born Bolina.

Elizaveta D. Bolina

Elizaveta I. Bolina

Elizaveta saw a ghost

A life story of a woman who saw a ghost.

Enets clans

A conversation between three speakers about different Nenets clans.

Enets customs

An Enets woman explains the Enets customs.

The Evenki man

A tale about an Evenki old man travelling along the Dudinka river, where sinful place is.

Feeding a bird

A true story about feeding a bird.

Fir

A man tells a story how an old man asked him to bring some fir for the sauna.

Fire

A man speaks of making a fire outdoors.

Fish and chitchat

A conversation between two Forest Enets men, who chitchat while cutting fish.

Fish and chitchat (2)

A conversation between two Forest Enets men, who chitchat while cutting fish.