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Picture of a young Nenets girl in the Russian Arctic dressed up as a princess
October 28, 2021

Tundra Princess

Decked out in a cardboard crown and a curtain for a robe, an eight-year-old Nenets girl proclaims herself a "tundra princess." The Nenets are an Indigenous group of people in the Russian Arctic who herd reindeer on an 800-mile round-trip migration every year.
Photograph by Evgenia Arbugaeva, Nat Geo Image Collection
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