Traditional children game. Children make a small open hous with stones, sticks and clay. They play with dolls in theis “yard”.

Playing with dolls. A kind of traditional children game, performed by girls. They imitate the behavior of elders through playing with dolls.

Playing with dolls. A kind of traditional children game, performed by girls. They imitate the behavior of elders through playing with dolls.

Playing with dolls. A kind of traditional children game, performed by girls. They imitate the behavior of elders through playing with dolls.

In traditional Kazakh culture orteke (mountain goat) is a flexible wooden figure of a mountain goat, placed on a traditional drum called dauylpaz. Originally orteke was a combination of theater performances music and puppet dance. An expressive doll figure called teke (goat) seems to come alive when the wizard starts to play the drum. The figure makes fun dancing movements on the drum skin as the musicians beat out a musical rhythm. The figure also moves to the finger movements of the dombra (Kazakh string instrument) players as there are filaments connecting the puppet to the musician fingers.

In traditional Kazakh culture orteke (mountain goat) is a flexible wooden figure of a mountain goat, placed on a traditional drum called dauylpaz. Originally orteke was a combination of theater performances music and puppet dance. An expressive doll figure called teke (goat) seems to come alive when the wizard starts to play the drum. The figure makes fun dancing movements on the drum skin as the musicians beat out a musical rhythm. The figure also moves to the finger movements of the dombra (Kazakh string instrument) players as there are filaments connecting the puppet to the musician fingers.

Skills and knowledges of making dolls. Doll in the forms a human or an animal, is made of cloth, paper, wood, porcelain, plastic and other materials.