#yurts

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Bulgan Province, Mongolia (2) (3) (4) by Travel Archive

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Kyrgyz Couple

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Kyrgyzstan, Scott Turner.

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Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Ryan Brooklyn

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A Nogai at an Otav (Otau) wedding yurt, Terek Region, 1903. Source: Russian Ethnographic Museum

About the ornaments on the Nogai wedding yurt-from the article by A.V. Durmenova “Ancient pictorial subjects of the Steppe population in traditional felt products of the Nogais” (2008):

“The covering and furnishings of the Nogai wedding yurt are made of felt - “kiyiz” in the Xiongnu tradition of felting. The latter is characterized by the use of a multi-layer base and applique decor in combination with outlining and quilting. The technology is recorded in monuments of the turn of the eras and was presumably developed by the Xiongnu - nomadic inhabitants of Mongolia who appeared in the north and west of Central Asia in the 4th century BC. <...> The heirs of the latter [Xiongnu culture] were the Mongols, Kazakhs, Tuvans, Kalmyks, and also the Nogais, which is confirmed, as we will see, by the commonality of multiple ornamental images.

Complex ornamental patterns of the yurt felt designs are constructed from a limited number of initial figures. Thus, the border ribbon-like ornament is composed of S-shaped figures, circles, meanders and stripes made up of triangles. The main motif of the ornament is the so-called "Turkic palmette" or "cross-shaped rosette", which is a rhombus or square with a cross inscribed in it with pairs of horn-shaped curls at the ends. The use of the horn motif in the ornament is traditional for steppe cattle breeders. This is consistent with the ancient cult of the "cosmic ram", but also, according to the Nogai beliefs, bestows wealth: "the more curls of the horn, the more flocks the craftswoman <of the pattern> wishes for the owner"; power: "whoever has more rams is right" (Nogai proverb) and offspring."

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Woman Living Off-Grid in an ULTRA Tiny Yurt Home in the Desert 

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Kyrgyzstan by SlowPathsImages