Milking camels and taking sheep out to pasture at Zagdsüren's place, Dornogovi

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This series of audiovisual recordings depicts the morning activities at Zagdsüren’s home in Dornogovi, close to Khamar Monastery. Zagdsüren manages the livestock on her own with her young grandson; her husband and son both live at the Monastery. She milks the camels, discussing the merits of camels over other types of livestock. She shows the camel’s “tar” (bokhi), a black substance that is secreted from the back of a male camel’s neck when it is in heat, which is used as a medicine to cure cancer-like serious illnesses. Her grandson demonstrates the cloth sack used for carrying lambs that are born at pasture, and shows two newborn lambs that are being kept warm overnight inside the yurt. We follow him as he drives the sheep off to graze.

2012-03-14