Materials
milk
ICH Materials 314
Photos
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Visitors playing Dembee finger games and drinking mare’s milk
Art Council of Mongolia, Culture Naadam Project
Mongolia -
Mare’s milk making
Art Council of Mongolia, Culture Naadam Project
Mongolia -
Leather bag _saba_ and a wooden stake used for making kymyz
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Kyrgyzstan -
Ezhigey
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Kyrgyzstan -
Terisakkan Spring Festival of Horse Breeders: First Milking
On the day of biye baylau, the first milking is always performed by women. Men assist them, bringing foals, one by one, to mares for suckling and then taking them back to allow for milking.\nTraditional spring festive rites of the Kazakh horse breeders – taking place in Terisakkan Village – mark the end of the previous and the beginning of the new yearly horse-breeding cycle. Rooted in traditional knowledge about nature and the age-old relations between man and horse, the rites involve skills inherited from nomadic ancestors, adapted to present-day reality. The rites take around three weeks in total, until the koumiss sharing ceremonies, which take place in every household, are over. The rites open a new yearly cycle of reproduction and manifest traditional Kazakh hospitality. Faced with the forced transition in the twentieth century from a nomadic way of life to a settled one, bearers have adapted the traditional form of horse breeding to meet present-day conditions to ensure its continued viability.
Kazakhstan -
SHISHBASHIR upka (2)
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Tajikistan -
Collected mare_s milk is poured to _saba_ (leather bag) for fermentation
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Kyrgyzstan -
Woman in the process of making kurut
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Kyrgyzstan -
Terisakkan Spring Festival of Horse Breeders: First Milking
On the day of biye baylau, the first milking is always performed by women. Men assist them, bringing foals, one by one, to mares for suckling and then taking them back to allow for milking.\nTraditional spring festive rites of the Kazakh horse breeders – taking place in Terisakkan Village – mark the end of the previous and the beginning of the new yearly horse-breeding cycle. Rooted in traditional knowledge about nature and the age-old relations between man and horse, the rites involve skills inherited from nomadic ancestors, adapted to present-day reality. The rites take around three weeks in total, until the koumiss sharing ceremonies, which take place in every household, are over. The rites open a new yearly cycle of reproduction and manifest traditional Kazakh hospitality. Faced with the forced transition in the twentieth century from a nomadic way of life to a settled one, bearers have adapted the traditional form of horse breeding to meet present-day conditions to ensure its continued viability.
Kazakhstan -
Suzmo
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Kyrgyzstan -
SHISHBASHIR upka (1)
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Tajikistan -
SHISHBASHIR upka (3)
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Tajikistan