Lyalya Dzhavanova, About funerals
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Lyalya says that before lowering the coffin into a hole in the ground, people walk around the grave clock-wise. In the past, Kalmyks did not bury but left their dead on the steppe, wrapped in a white cloth. Women did not participate in funerals.
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Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Documentation Project, University of Cambridge
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