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Alena Lidzhieva, About Hunting


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Terbish, Baasanjav 

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Karu: In the past, what did your men do on the water? Did they fish? Alena: No. We did not have fish. Our men often went hunting. They hunted hares. K: What other animals did they hunt? A: Foxes, hares, corsacs. K: Did you eat fox’s meat? A: No, no one ate it. But we ate hare’s meat. Fox’s meat is considered to be bad, because it is a bad omen. K: Did people go on wolf hunting? A: Yes. Only good hunters went for the wolves. Those who had good and strong dogs. K: How did they hunt wolves? With whips? A: The dogs would catch a wolf. The hunter would hit the wolf with a whip on its head. K: In order to catch a wolf alive, did hunters put a stick into its mouth? A: Maybe that is what hunters did. K: What did the hunters ride? Horses? A: Yes, horses. Good hunters had horses. Only the poor hunted by foot. Such poor hunters often returned home with nothing.

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Hunting, hunters

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Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Documentation Project, University of Cambridge

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

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