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Activities of the Nenets (Samoyeds)

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Activities of the Nenets (Samoyeds)

Veer, Gerrit de

-Various activities of the Nenets around the Vaigach Strait are jointly depicted here. Among other things, we see how whales are caught and their blubber is boiled for whale oil. On the top left, animals are sacrificed before the religious sculptures at the coast. On the lower left, a sled.

From the Wahrhafftige Relation, the German version of Gerrit de Veer’s journal, published in 1598. (See under ‘documentation’ for details.)

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Sources and literature

Veer, Gerrit de, Om de Noord: de tochten van Willem Barentsz en Jacob van Heemskerck en de overwintering op Nova Zembla, zoals opgetekend door Gerrit de Veer (1598)

Veer, Gerrit de, Warhafftige Relation. Der dreyen newen unerhörten seltzamen Schiffart so die Holländischen und Seeländischen Schiff....Anno 1594, 1595 und 1596 verricht (NG-1979-564) (1598)