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Coaxing ritual for Camel Calves
The coaxing ritual is used by herders to save newborn calves orphaned or rejected by their mothers. A camel mare is coaxed into accepting an orphaned or estranged calf by singing melody accompanied by the Мorin khuur music.
Mongolia -
Book _Kyrgyz fairy tales_
Kyrgyzstan
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Students from School interlacing rope using animal wool and hair No.54
Art Council of Mongolia/ beating fleece, students from school
Mongolia -
Custom to castrate young animals
Young animals are castrated at the beginning of summer. The methods to castrate animals differ depending upon the flock or herd. The general ceremony of castration is the same. For instance, in order to castrate flocks, a felt rug or piece of quilted felt is stretched out at the western part of a ger. There is a support piece of the ger that is placed at the right of felt rug facing to the north. On the western side of the man doing the castration, a small sack of millet and a pail of water blended with a bit of milk are also placed. An arrow is set lengthwise on the top of pail. Beside them juniper needles are burnt in an incense-burner. After man did castration, he says as “be lighter than feather and faster than arrow, blood must be dried in time and healing comes in time, khurai khurai khurai, dur dur suukhaa”.
Mongolia -
Forms of folk traditional medicine
Nomadic Mongols, while moving from place to place tending to their domestic animals in the severe continental climate of Central Asia with four different seasons, have created and practiced the peculiar way of traditional medicine and treatment of various illnesses. The methods of treatments experienced for centuries which derived from their simple lives, later have recognized as the traditional medicine. There are many traditional methods of treating illnesses including bleeding and lancing wounds, cauterizing wounds, puncturing with a needle to cure a disease, massaging, and treating by unorthodox means. In the west these methods are famous as “Five oriental treatment methods”. Medical herbs, limbs of animals, and minerals are used as natural forms of medical treatment individually or sometimes mixed with each other.
Mongolia -
MUCHAL, muljar
A traditional of folk calendar which is connected with Chinese astrological calendar. According to that a cycle of Muchal consists of 12 years, which are related to 12 animals. Tajik people have many beliefs and stories related to this calendar.
Tajikistan -
Melodies concerning the tradition of hunting
This is a complex of rite to use the benefits from the hunting properly in the daily life and social needs, and the tradition to protect the wild animals. Within the long periods of history these melodies concerning the tradition of hunting has created and developed. There is a tradition that hunters from Khangai, Khentii and Khüvsgül mountain ranges hunt deer during their mating season by calling them with similar sounds made from uram (wooden instrument for calling deer). Around the Altai and Gobi-Altai mountain ranges, the argali (wild sheep) and ugalz (ibex) are also hunted during their mating season by hunters calling them imitating the same sound as the one made from their colliding with each other. Other than these, there are unique hunting methods to call by imitating the howling to hunt for wolves, making a sound by shovshuur (instrument to call foxes) to hunt for foxes and whistling to hunt for chipmunks.
Mongolia -
Children listening to the Kyrgyz tales
Kyrgyzstan
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Coaxing ritual for camel calves
The coaxing ritual is used by herders to save newborn camel calves orphaned or rejected by their mothers, and to avoid the loss of vital camel milk. A camel mare is coaxed into accepting an orphaned or estranged calf by the singing of a melody accompanied by the morin khuur horse-head fiddle. This handling technique helps the survival of newborn calves and maintains the mother’s lactation. The renowned Russian poet Sergei Yesenin once said that “It is indeed undoubted that Mongols could make the camel cry with the melody of khuur (fiddle)”.
Mongolia -
Puppet making
Puppet making is an ancient type of folk applied art. This type of art was evolved as a result of human’s relationship with the nature. Initial puppets were animalshapednand made of clay. They became more complicated step by step. Central Asian people mainly occupied with agriculture and cattle-raising and their art was associated with their lifestyle. Uzbek people have always loved children. Children always need dolls and puppets. Such puppets as sheep, lamb, duck, geese, roosters, fish, shell whistled and others were among them. These puppets bring up children.
Uzbekistan -
Puppet making
Puppet making is an ancient type of folk applied art. This type of art was evolved as a result of human’s relationship with the nature. Initial puppets were animalshapednand made of clay. They became more complicated step by step. Central Asian people mainly occupied with agriculture and cattle-raising and their art was associated with their lifestyle. Uzbek people have always loved children. Children always need dolls and puppets. Such puppets as sheep, lamb, duck, geese, roosters, fish, shell whistled and others were among them. These puppets bring up children.
Uzbekistan -
Puppet making
Puppet making is an ancient type of folk applied art. This type of art was evolved as a result of human’s relationship with the nature. Initial puppets were animalshapednand made of clay. They became more complicated step by step. Central Asian people mainly occupied with agriculture and cattle-raising and their art was associated with their lifestyle. Uzbek people have always loved children. Children always need dolls and puppets. Such puppets as sheep, lamb, duck, geese, roosters, fish, shell whistled and others were among them. These puppets bring up children.
Uzbekistan