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Traditional technique of making ox-cart
  • Manage No PI00002282
    Country Mongolia
    ICH Domain Traditional craft skills
Description The largest from the tools and equipments for animal husbandry crafted by Mongols is a cart with wheels. Our predecessors have produced the cart with wheels from the old ages. As stated in the “Secret History of Mongols”, Mongols have produced and used a variety of carts such as mukhlag tereg (cart with booth), khagaatai tereg, öljigtei tereg, tömör tereg (metal cart), tsuurgatai tereg (cart with socket) and tenkhlegtei tereg (cart with axle). Only a handful of skilled master artisans crafted these varieties of carts in different sizes.
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National Center for Cultural Heritage under the Ministry of Culture of Mongolia
http://www.ncch.gov.mn

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