SAMOYED

sămˈəyĕd, breed of hardy, muscular working dog developed in N Siberia many centuries ago. It stands from 19 to 23.5 in. (48.3–59.7 cm) high at the shoulder and weighs from 35 to 65 lb (15.9–29.5 kg). The weather-resistant double coat is composed of dense, woolly underhairs and a long, harsh, curl-free outer coat that stands straight out from the body. It may be pure white, white and biscuit, pure biscuit, or cream in color. Raised by the Samoyed people near the White Sea thousands of years before the Christian era, this hardy arctic dog was used to herd reindeer and haul sledges, at the same time being welcomed into the home as a family companion. Today the Samoyed is popular principally as a show dog and pet. See dog.

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books on: Samoyed  - 150 results

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An Ethnohistorical Dictionary of the Russian and Soviet Empires
Book by James S. Olson, Lee Brigance Pappas, Nicholas C. J. Pappas; Greenwood Press, 1994
Subjects: Ethnology--Russia--Dictionaries, Ethnology--Soviet Union--Dictionaries, Russia--Ethnic Relations--Dictionaries, Soviet Union--Ethnic Relations--Dictionaries
TUNDRA ENISEI SAMOED. See KHANTAIKA SAMOYED and ENT. TUNDRA ENISEI SAMOIED. See KHANTAIKA SAMOYED and ENT. TUNDRA ENISEI SAMOYED. See KHANTAIKA SAMOYED and ENT. TUNDRA ENISEY SAMODI. See KHANTAIKA SAMOYED and ENT. TUNDRA ENISEY SAMOED...
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The Peoples of the USSR: An Ethnographic Handbook
Book by Ronald Wixman; M.E. Sharpe,Inc., 1984
Subjects: Ethnology--Soviet Union--Handbooks, Manuals, Etc
...des. Kozhla Mari. SEE Kozhla Mari, Mari. FOREST ENISEI SAMODI SAMOED, Alt. des. Karasa SAMOIED, SAMOYED Samoyed. SEE Karasa Samoyed, Ent. FOREST ENISEY SAMODI SAMOED, Alt. des. Karasa SAMOIED, SAMOYED Samoyed. SEE Karasa Samoyed...
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Studies in Siberian Ethnogenesis
Book by H. N. Michael; University of Toronto Press, 1962
Subjects: Ethnology--Russia (Federation)--Siberia
...the northward spread of the Samoyeds in western Siberia and that...people. The origin of the Samoyed languages is evidently not...origin of the Nganasans. The Samoyed languages, as we have already...people and only acquired the Samoyed language and the elements of...
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Siberian Survival: The Nenets and Their Story
Book by Andrei V. Golovnev, Gail Osherenko; Cornell University Press, 1999
Subjects: Eiiamal Peninsula (Russia)--Politics And Government, Eiiamal Peninsula (Russia)--Social Life And Customs, Nentsy--Government Relations, Nentsy--History, Nentsy--Social Life And Customs, Reindeer Herding--Russia (Federation)--Eiiamal Peninsula
...clan; if now one Samoyed were appointed to be chief over all the Samoyeds, one of the 32 clans...positive view of Samoyeds. It contains quite good data on Samoyed customs and folklore...favorably compares Samoyeds to Ostiaks.51 After...
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Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics - Vol. 2
Book by Keith Brown, Anne H. Anderson, Laurie Bauer, Margie Berns, Graeme Hirst, Jim Miller; Elsevier, 2006
Subjects: Language And Languages--Encyclopedias, Linguistics--Encyclopedias
...of scholarly Uralic (Finno-Ugric and Samoyed) studies and an early pioneer of linguistic...central Russia. Castren studied Yurak Samoyed (Nenets) in Arkhangelsk and then continued...trip he became convinced that Finnish and Samoyed were related. In 1845 his basic grammar...
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The Universality of Ancestor Worship
Journal article by Lyle B. Steadman, Craig T. Palmer, Christopher F. Tilley; Ethnology, Vol. 35, 1996
Subjects: Ancestor worship--Social aspects, Religion, Primitive--Social aspects, Spiritualism--Religious aspects
...Ghosts of my fathers, depart," and then the purification is complete. (Bailey 1932:39) Samoyed. The Samoyed, specifically the Ostyak Samoyed, represented the Eurasia-Arctic Eurasia region. Czaplicka (1951:176) states that, "with...
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Thoughts on the Chain-like Homeland of the Uralic People
Journal article by Janos Pusztay; Mankind Quarterly, Vol. 44, 2004
Subjects: Culture, Languages, Minority & ethnic groups
...socalled intermediate protolanguages (Samoyed; Ugric; FinnoPermian; Permian; Finno...exists only in the (Ob-)Ugrian and Samoyed languages as well as in the Saami (Lapp...transitive) conjugation exists in Ugric- and Samoyed languages and in Mordvin. These languages...
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The Origin of the Baltic-finns from the Physical Anthropological Point of View
Journal article by Markku Niskanen; Mankind Quarterly, Vol. 43, 2002
Subjects: Anthropology, Baltic states, Minority & ethnic groups
...Saami to be 18% Samoyed (and 82 % European...population), and Samoyeds. However, these...not estimate the Samoyed genetic component...the Finns and the Samoyeds from which to calculate the Samoyed genetic contribution...
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Ethnographic Atlas XXX: Peoples of Siberia (1)
Journal article by Andrey Korotayev, Alexander Kazankov, Svetlana Borinskaya, Daria Khaltourina, Dmitri Bondarenko; Ethnology, Vol. 43, 2004
...Ugrian (Mansi Ec15) and Samodian/ Samoyed (Nganasan Ec12); Eskaleut (Ungazikmit...Ec12) are the only one of the Samodian (Samoyed) linguistic stock peoples whose principal...RSWGB SOURCES Ec12: Nganasan (Tavgi Samoyed), with special reference to the Avam...
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The Shaman's Initiation
Journal article by Joan Halifax; Re-vision, Vol. 13, 1990
Subjects: Consciousness
...of the living, except that all that exists there is upside down or inside out. Death is a reversal of life. According to Samoyed tradition, for example, the trees grow downward, the sun sets in the east and rises in the west, and the rivers flow in...
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Ariel Ramirez: High Fidelity for Folk: A Passionate Exponent of Traditional Music, This Prolific Composer Has Brought the Rhythms of Argentina's Interior to World Audiences
Magazine article by Caleb Bach; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 55, September 2003
Subjects: Church music--International aspects, Music in churches--International aspects, Music, Latin-American--Social aspects
...poet Guiche Aizemberg did the lyrics. Lets hear it!" On cue, at almost the first note, Dorotea, the couples much beloved Samoyed, enters the room and curls up on the sofa to take it all in. "Shes my biggest fan," Ramirez says with a broad smile...
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From the President
Magazine article by Eileen Guenther; The American Organist, Vol. 43, October 2009
...WRITING this in the depths of the August heat (which some call the Dog Days of August - but my fairly spoiled, very furry Samoyed .would probably say that all days should be "dog days"). While energy is beginning to pick up as preparations for fall...
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Holiday Hazards for Pets
Magazine article by Gregory J. A Moore; The Saturday Evening Post, Vol. 268, November 1996
Subjects: Animal care, Christmas, Pets, Safety
...What have we got?" I asked, as I began examining his unconscious pet. He told me he had found his threemonth-old samoyed puppy comatose under the Christmas tree. "He was just fine when I left to go shopping, Doc, and when I got back, he was...
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An Iceman's Best Friend: The Dogs Bred by the Chukchi People of the Russian Far East Enabled Them to Occupy Some of the World's Most Inhospitable Territory and Helped Them to Fight off the Cossacks. Benedict Allen Tells the Story of the Most Efficient Mode of Tundra Transport Humanity Has Ever Invented
Magazine article by Benedict Allen; Geographical, Vol. 78, December 2006
Subjects: Chukchi (Asian people)--Economic aspects, Chukchi (Asian people)--Environmental aspects, Chukchi (Asian people)--Social aspects, Sled dogs--Economic aspects, Sled dogs--Environmental aspects, Sled dogs--Usage
...Explorers and their dogs The Arctic explorer Fridtjof Nansens first solo dog drive, with only half a dozen dogs--from the Samoyed (Nenets) people of Siberia--wasnt a triumph. Fruitlessly yelling, "Pr-r-rr, Pr-r-rr!" as hed been instructed...
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Mulch Madness
Magazine article by Michael Behar, Casey Miner; Mother Jones, Vol. 33, March 2008
Subjects: Atchafalaya Basin, Bayous, Comic books, Professional hockey, Timber industry, Trees
...threatened, warned to watch his back. A few days before my visit, he discovered Luna, his sprightly seven-year-old Samoyed-German shepherd mix, in a crumpled heap at the end of his gravel driveway. She was dead-intentionally poisoned, his...
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A Perfect Pooch. but You're No Sammy; Is the Dandelion Clock with Paws Just a Crufts Shaggy Dog Story?
Newspaper article; Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England), March 13, 2011
Subjects: Dogs
...sometimes hanker after a Samoyed. Which is why I was so anxious...we could spot a Sammy. "Samoyed?" he said. "Is that a...the strange delusion that Samoyeds werent half as fab as the...Polar. (Left) the elusive Samoyed.
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Get Knitting . . . and Wear Your Pet with Pride; WHY THE HAIR OF THE DOG IS THE HEIGHT OF FASHION
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), August 10, 1996
...Tribesmen in the icy wastes of Siberia used samoyed hair for jumpers and hats. Dog hair garments...breeds make the snazziest sweaters? The samoyed is the cream of canine spinnables. The...Old English sheepdog. His sweater is of samoyed. Rottweilers have a tough reputation...
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Our Pets Are Dead but Still Warm Our Hearts; Hair of the Dog: Brian and Beth Willis Show off the Garments That Will Always Remind Them of Their Pets. There Is Enough Fur for a Third Jumper Gone but Not Forgotten: Beloved Dogs Penny (Left) and Kara
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), March 19, 2008
Subjects: Clothing, Clothing and dress, Dogs
...year-old Mrs Willis from hair from Kara,the couples white Samoyed, a Russian breed. Mrs Willis said: It is not actually a...the jumper made from her hair is still goingstrong. The Samoyed breed is native to northern Russia, where they were used tokeep...
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UE, UPH Dispute Last Quarterfinal Slot
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, March 4, 2011
Subjects: Sports associations
...showing Miniature Schnauzers, Chihuahua, Japanese Chin and Samoyed under the kennel "Haybrook" which won in National and Regional...Japanese Chin Club of America, Illinois Capitol Kennel Club and Samoyed Club of America.Volvo bike raceThe Filipino-Chinese Amateur...
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Pets of the Week; Pets Corner
Newspaper article; Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland), December 6, 2009
...Corner. Byline: Scott miller KOBI Kobi is a five-year-old Samoyed who lives with Valerie and Jack McKinnel in Kirkcudbright, Dumfries and Galloway. Where did you get him? He came from a Samoyed family in Bonnybridge, Stirlingshire. What does he eat...
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encyclopedia articles on: Samoyed  - 6 results

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Samoyed
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SAMOYED sam yed, breed of hardy, muscular working...biscuit, or cream in color. Raised by the Samoyed people near the White Sea thousands of...home as a family companion. Today the Samoyed is popular principally as a show dog and...
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Chow Chow
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...believed by some to have been the mastiff of Tibet and the Samoyed. However, because it is the only breed possessing a black...contend that it is a basic breed and the progenitor of the Samoyed, the Keeshond, the Norwegian elkhound, and the Pomeranian...
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Working Dog
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Great Pyrenees , komondor , kuvasz , mastiff , Newfoundland , old English sheepdog , Pembroke Welsh corgi , puli , Rottweiler , Samoyed , schnauzer (giant and standard), Shetland sheepdog , Siberian husky , and St. Bernard . See dog...
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Samoyedes
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SAMOYEDES or Samoyeds both: sam yedz , partly nomadic, partly settled agricultural tribes...today live mainly by raising reindeer and fishing. See P. Hajdu, The Samoyed Peoples and Languages (1963...
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Kanin
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the west) and Chesha (Cheshskaya) Bay (in the east). Its northernmost cape is called Kanin Nos. The native Nenets (Samoyed) people engage in fishing, hunting, and reindeer raising. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia...
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