The Arctic, northern Europe and Russia
Luoravetlan
Lands
Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, northern Kamchatka Krai and the Nizhnekolymsky District of Sakha (Yakutia), Russia
Countries Russian Federation
Facts 3
Today
Researchers at Russia's Kunstkamera museum published a 2018 study on the mobile dwellings of Chukchi reindeer herders, covering both traditions and innovations.
As of 2018 Source: Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), Russian Academy of Sciences, Arctic Research Center (opens in a new tab) Checked Suggest a correction to this fact
Culture
Carving bone and walrus ivory and embroidering with reindeer hair are long-standing Chukchi arts, practised alongside reindeer herding and hunting.
Source: RAIPON (Association of Indigenous Small-Numbered Peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East), Чукчи (opens in a new tab) Checked Suggest a correction to this fact
History
Chukchi have used pictographs since ancient times, and their oldest known documents are inscribed walrus tusks.
Source: The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire (Institute of the Estonian Language archive), The Chukchis (opens in a new tab) Checked Suggest a correction to this fact
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