Forest Enets

Polar fox skin

An Enets speaker explains how to skin a polar fox and discusses the trading customs of his people.

A poor man uses dogs

A very short story about men and dogs.

Pregnancy superstitions

A Nenets speaker describes some of her people’s superstitions related to pregnancy.

Preparing chaga

An Enets speaker discusses the tasteful and medicinal properties of birch tree tea (chaga tea).

Preparing fish

While cooking fish on the fire, an Enets man explains how to cook it best and tells small stories about cooking fish.

Preparing reindeer meat

An Enets speaker explains how to kill a reindeer and cut the animal for meat.

Rain

A very short recording of a man enjoying the lack of rain and his dry land.

Rats

An Enets speaker discusses a clever trick to get rid of rats.Â

Reindeer with greedy breasts

An Enets man remembers a trip from the Tundra with four healthy reindeer.

Reindeer-herding and food

A man explains how Russians sent his people food by helicopter and remembers a day when things didn’t go as planned.

Repairing the fishing nets

An Enets speaker explains how to fix fishing nets and discusses good vs. bad fish.

Riding on a skin

An Enets man recalls his misadventures travelling on a sledge and how he ended up travelling on a reindeer skin.

Sable box

An Enets speaker explains what a sable box.

Sandy island

An Enets speaker describes a nearby island called sandy island.

The sick reindeer, the bear and the toddler

An Enets man tells the true story of how his toddler daughter ran after a bear.Â

Sleeping bag

An Enets speaker explains the different reindeer skins used in the composition of sleeping bags for summer in the Tun

The small bear cub

A very short story in which a Forest Enets speaker describes her encounter with a mischievous tiny bear cub.

Snares for partridges

An Enets speaker describes how to snares to catch partridges are made and how to set them up.

Snowstorms

A very short audio about what happens during snowstorms.

Someone took away the boat

An Enets speaker recalls a particular fishing trip when his boat was borrowed by a stranger.

Speaking to granddaughter

An Enets speaker tells his granddaughter off.

Spiridon Bolin

Stalin’s prisoner

A testimony about life during Stalin’s era focussing on imprisonment and prisoners’ escapes.

A stone with a hole

A folktale about a sinful man visiting the bewitched land across the Dudinka river.

A stone with a hole 2

A folktale about a sinful man visiting the bewitched land across the Dudinka river.

Storing firewood

An Enets speaker explains how he stores wood for firewoods in the winter.

Story about a bear

Two fishermen hatch a plan to catch the bear who steals their fish at night but they drink to much brew and fall asle

Suffix glosses for Forest Enets (English)

An index of the English glosses of Forest Enets suffixes found in the transcribed texts.

Suffixes in Forest Enets

An index of the Forest Enets suffixes found in the transcribed texts.

Sun, nets and bears

A little chat with an Enets man explaining why fishing nets should not be left hanging in the sun.

Svetlana Roslyakova

Swans

An Enets speaker explains where and how young swans hide before they can fly.

Tale about sons-in-law

An Enets speaker tells a story about an old woman and her two son-in-laws.

Tatiyana Bolina

Tent

An Enets speaker discusses the tent he lived in while in Tundra.

There are no shamans here!

A very short conversation in which the speaker explains how shamans are a thing of the past.

Three bears

A story about bears stealing a manâs food provisions and him scaring them away.

Timka

An Enets man remembers Timka, a lazy boy who would fool his old father not to go fishing.

To make a bolok

An Enets speaker tells of his plan to build a bolok and gather his family for a trip in the Tundra.

Traces

A short monologue in which a speaker talks about leaving marks and traces.

Tulle

A story about a rich Enets man who had tulle in his house.

Two dogs

An Enets speaker tells of two cheeky dogs he once owned.

The two mates

A tale about two mates and a bear.

The two mates (2)

A tale about two mates and a bear, part 2.

Two men

A traditional Enets tale about an Enets and a Russian.

Two tales

Two traditional tales, one about the last summer boy and one about an old woman, told by an Enets speak

Two ways back

A brief chat with an Enets speaker, who describes two pathways to the village.

Two women

A traditional Enets story about a dreadful woman who lives in the forest and steals children.

Unidentified bird

An Enests man tells of the day he killed a âsinfulâ bird in front of his superstitious wife.

Valentina Silkina

Vera Bolina

Viktor Palchin

Vitaliy Bolin

Washing a newborn

An Enets speaker remembers the birth of a baby in the tundra and the afterbirth washing ritual.

Way to the lake

A brief chat with an nets speaker discussing a path to a lake made by his people

We found a duck’s nest

A brief audio recording of an Enets speaker puzzled after finding a duckâs nest in an unexpected place.

We remained without moss

A story of Enets and Evenkis people who lost half of their reindeer herds because of the lack of moss.

Whirlpool

An Enets speaker tells of the time he fell in a whirlpool with his reindeer and almost froze.

White salmon

An Enets speaker discusses local fish and their specificities

Who speaks which languages

A Forest Enets speaker discusses the various people found in the region and the language they speak.