MAPS AND FIGURES

All maps and photographs are by the author, except where indicated otherwise.

Maps

1Tundra Nenets areas in Arctic Russia.

2Yamb-To Nenets and Ural Nenets areas.

3Land-use rights of reindeer-herding enterprises.

Figures

0.1Before the water baptism of Yegor and Lida, August 2002.

0.2Nenets converts reading the Bible, August 2002.

0.3A reindeer-herding camp in Polar Urals, March 2007.

0.4A reindeer herd of a thousand animals enables a decent life in the tundra, July 2007.

0.5Driving a reindeer caravan on the last patches of the snow at the end of spring migration, June 2007.

0.6White reindeer are particularly valued, August 2006.

0.7Feeding a pet reindeer called navka, February 2007.

0.8A Nenets family corralling reindeer near the Polar Urals, 9 p.m., June 2007.

0.9Non-Christian Nenets eat a freshly killed reindeer, March 2007.

1.1Nenets shift workers, August 1999.

1.2An icon of St. Nicholas the Miracle-Maker and coins used as offerings at sacred places, September 2006.

1.3Yegor and his family with Russian acquaintances in Amderma at the end of the 1980s.

1.4Entering Amderma, July 2002.

1.5Having a rest after selling and buying, Amderma, August 2006.

1.6Passports are issued to Independents, July 2002.

1.7Nenets boarding school in Vorgashor, September 2017.

1.8Ural Nenets paying a visit to the Sovetskiy village, May 2012.

2.1Snowmobiles increasingly replace reindeer for long-distance winter travel, March 2004.

2.2A moment of prayer in front of the box for food and teacups after having lunch on the way, August 2002.

2.3Literate youth reading the Baptist journal Herald of Truth, February 2007.

3.1Baptist missionaries visiting Yegor’s nomadic camp, March 2004.

3.2Vorkuta Baptist congregants celebrating the sixtieth anniversary of their church, February 2007.

3.3The sign of the second coming of Christ, December 2006.

3.4Missionaries driving their all-terrain vehicle on the coast of the Arctic Ocean, August 2002.

3.5Pavel gives a sermon in a Nenets mya, July 2002.

4.1Interior of a tent in the Polar Urals, March 2007.

4.2Pukhutsya and Iriko, May 2007.

4.3Before a baptism in the pool of the Pentecostal prayer house, April 2007.

4.4Baptism of Iriko, June 2007.

4.5Pentecostal missionary Vladislav performing Hamlet’s monologue with a reindeer head in the presence of Baptist converts, April 2007.

4.6Vladislav gives a sermon, April 2007.

4.7Iriko’s khekheq and Orthodox icons known as lutsa khekheq, April 2007.

4.8Vladislav saving the Orthodox icons from the fire, April 2007.

4.9Iriko watching his khekheq burning, April 2007.

5.1Ural Nenets searching for wood material in the forest tundra, April 2007.

5.2Alcohol helps to appease spirits, September 2006.

6.1Pavel baptizing Yegor by immersing him in the cold tundra lake, August 2002.

6.2Pavel baptizing Lida, August 2002.

6.3Baptist missionaries and Nenets converts singing hymns, August 2002.

6.4Pavel performing the laying on of hands for Lida and Yegor, August 2002.

7.1Mastering lasso is one of the most important skills for men, November 2006.

8.1A boy and a myenarui, reindeer bull dedicated to spirits, July 2002.