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  • But, on the other hand, I was lucky enough to see a beautiful thing at dawn: three Ostyaks, riding full-tilt, lassoed some deer, already marked, from their herd of several hundred while the dogs drove the deer toward them.

    My Life Trotsky, Leon 1930

  • These very same words have been applied to the Ostyaks, the Samoyedes, the Eskimos, the Dyaks, the Aleuts, the Papuans, and so on, by the highest authorities.

    Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning 1920

  • So long as the Ostyaks, before the coming of the Russians, were sole masters of the vast forests of the Obi

    Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography Ellen Churchill Semple 1897

  • Among the Ostyaks such elopements, to avoid payment, are frequent.

    Primitive Love and Love-Stories Henry Theophilus Finck 1890

  • Among the Samoyedes and Ostyaks a wife was not allowed in any corner of the tent except her own; after pitching the tent she was obliged to fumigate it before the men would enter.

    Primitive Love and Love-Stories Henry Theophilus Finck 1890

  • These very same words have been applied to the Ostyaks, the Samoyedes, the Eskimos, the Dyaks, the Aleuts, the Papuans, and so on, by the highest authorities.

    Pagan and Christian creeds: their origin and meaning Edward Carpenter 1886

  • These very same words have been applied to the Ostyaks, the Samoyedes, the Eskimos, the Dayaks, the Aleoutes, the Papuas, and so on, by the highest authorities.

    Mutual Aid; a factor of evolution Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin 1881

  • The main population in the forest belt consists of native nomad or hunting tribes, of which Samoyeds, Ostyaks, Tunguses, and Yakuts are the most numerous.

    The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II Alexander Leslie 1866

  • Ostyaks build store-houses, on the tops of very high poles.

    Far Off Favell Lee Mortimer 1840

  • On one occasion, a traveller was surrounded by a troop of Ostyaks, all begging for brandy, and when they could get none, they brought a large heap of frozen fish, and laid it at the travellers feet, saying, "Noble sir, we present you with this."

    Far Off Favell Lee Mortimer 1840

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