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Terisakkan Spring Festival of Horse Breeders: Tether a foal
  • Manage No PI00002469
    Country Kazakhstan
    Year 2014-05-06
    ICH Domain Social practices, rituals, festive events, Knowledge and practices about nature and the universe
Description 'Tether a foal' - this is the rite and a part of the Terisakkan Spring Festival of Horse Breeders. Traditional 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.
Photographer Sergey Bolotin (Mr)
Place The element is practisized at Terisakan village, Karaganda Province of Kazakhstan. The element is practiced also outside Kazakhstan by some Kazakh ethnic communities in Tutkey, China and Mongolia. In different locations it may show some differences in details. File Size 3.80 MB
Definition 3059 x 2494 File Format jpg
Copyright Sergey Bolotin; Kazakhstan ICH Committee Copyright
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Kazakhstan National Committee for Intangible Cultural Heritage

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