Nganasan Power Figure

The Nganasans are a Uralic people of the Samoyedic branch in northern Siberia. Indigenous peoples of the Russian North. The traditional religion of the Nganasans is animistic and shamanistic. The last notable Nganasan shaman's seances were recorded on film by anthropologists in the 1970s.

I made this drawing of a ritual statue while my trip to Putorana Plateau near lake Lama. Watercolor on paper. Belongs to a series of unique sketches from the artist's sketchbook dated 2019.