A Siberian shaman / medicine man / sorcerer / wizard / healer / foreteller shows his 'sacred tree' place. Polar Circle, Siberia, Russia. April. Selkup (siberian indigenous minority) shaman Ganya (a local name) is next to a bunch of his shaman's totems (including a portrait of Lenin) hanging on sacred tree (in this case a birch, under which the box of shaman's items 'amgri' is being kept); trad. winter clothes 'malitsa' and footwear 'bakari' both made of reindeer; dusk in woods near winter-hut on frozen river Taz bank;.