Gerel Shakeeva, About the First Haircut
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Terbish, Baasanjav
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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.
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Haircut, ritual
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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