Forest Enets
About fishing
A Enets speaker explains why mosquito time is the best time to fish.
A Enets speaker explains why mosquito time is the best time to fish.
An Enets speaker explains that reindeer antlers which fall before the month of May do not reappear until the next yea
A man tells how he and his wife were driving a sledge along the Yenissey river.
A traditional Enets tale about an Enets and a Russian.
A traditional Enets tale about an Enets and a Russian, part 2.
A traditional Enets tale about an Enets and a Russian, part 3.
An Enets speaker tells a brief story about an entangled rope.
A man tells an everyday story about an ill reindeer.
A man tells an everyday story about an ill reindeer, part 2.
A man tells a tale about putting baits in his straps.
A true story of a man, who while angling in the Sigovaja river, shot a bear and brought its fatty meat home.
A very short account of how bears check fishing nets installed by people on the shore for food.
A true account from a reindeer herder of his encounter with a bear family in the tundra.
A short monologue about how to best cook berry jam.
A short monologue explaining how gulls eat fish from naive fishermen’s baskets.
A story about a boy who was bitten by wasps on his way to school from the Tundra.
A true story about two drunk friends who find a black duck but refuse to kill it to let it raise its ducklings.
An true account contrasting a good year for Forest Enets reindeer herders to a bad one.
A very short text in which a Forest Enets speaker details the landscape changes around her home.
A small chat with an Enets man during a fishing boat trip on the river.
A 1969 conversation between two Enets speakers, a man and a young girl, from the personal archive of Irina Sorokina.
A story about a man’s friendship with a prophetic shaman.
A true story about the speaker’s dog. His dog was very intelligent and understood what his master told him.
A true story about a dog stealing food during a fishing trip to the lake.
A very short monologue by a Nenets speaker about cloudberries.
A very short conversation between three Forest Enets speakers.
A very short conversation between three Forest Enets speakers.
A very short conversation between three Forest Enets speakers.
A short monologue in which a Nenets woman discusses cutting meat and fish and gives simple ways to cook them.
A short monologue in which a Nenets woman discusses cutting meat and fish and gives simple ways to cook them.
A tale about the trickster Djoa who simulated death.
A traditional folktale about the trickster Djoa who simulated death.
A very short story about the speakers dogs and their mischief in the Tundra.
A monologue in which a Nenets speaker remembers a time when all reindeer herders dogs got infested with the plague.
A brief monologue about duck eggs.
Recorded by Andrey Shluinsky, Natalya Stoynova and Maria Ovsyannikova in 2010.
A short monologue uttered by a lake and wondering about ducks’ whereabouts.
Recorded by Andrey Shluinsky, Natalya Stoynova and Maria Ovsjannikova in 2010.
A life story of a woman who saw a ghost.
A conversation between three speakers about different Nenets clans.
A tale about an Evenki old man travelling along the Dudinka river, where sinful place is.
A true story about feeding a bird.
A man tells a story how an old man asked him to bring some fir for the sauna.
A man speaks of making a fire outdoors.
A conversation between two Forest Enets men, who chitchat while cutting fish.
A conversation between two Forest Enets men, who chitchat while cutting fish.