Repository logo
 

Gerel Shakeeva, About the First Haircut


Change log

Authors

Terbish, Baasanjav 

Abstract

Gerel talks about her son’s first haircut. Gerel’s brother first cut the boy’s hair from four sides – this hair is kept today at Gerel’s mother-in-law’s house – and then shaved completely. The hair was later disposed of by burning it. After the haircut, the family had tea and uttered well-wishes to the boy. Gerel’s relatives who were at the ceremony left her house before the sunset.

Description

Keywords

Haircut, ritual

Is Part Of

Publisher

Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Documentation Project, University of Cambridge

Publisher DOI

Publisher URL

Sponsorship
Sponsored by Arcadia Fund, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin

Collections