Dordzhi Nandyshev, about smithery and metalwork

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Dordzhi talks about metalwork he and his brother do: My younger brother put a stove in his stone barn and, looking on the internet, made metalwork. He can now make knives and horse halters. I myself make ‘bows’ on the Kalmyk saddles from metal pipes. I also made nyarin shinj (a game with rings), chairs and tobacco pipes. Kalmyk pipes has a metal lid and a stick to clean the inside.