Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Project (LIVESTOCK BREEDING/CAMELS)

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Alena Lidzhieva, How to Make Female Camels Accept Their Newborn


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A female camel is pregnant for 11 months. Sometimes female camels reject their calves. In order to make them accept their calves young Kalmyk women play on the dombra instrument...

Collection: Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Project (LIVESTOCK BREEDING/CAMELS)

Institution: Department of Archaeology and Anthropology

Created: Wed 29 Apr 2015


Camel Race


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This video features a camel race held at the hippodrome in Elista in May 2016. The race includes four camels.

Collection: Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Project (LIVESTOCK BREEDING/CAMELS)

Institution: Department of Archaeology and Anthropology

Created: Wed 6 Jul 2016


Dmitriy Mandzhiev, A Story About Camel Theft


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Dmitriy relays a story about how his ancestors stole camels from another clan.

Collection: Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Project (LIVESTOCK BREEDING/CAMELS)

Institution: Department of Archaeology and Anthropology

Created: Sun 28 Oct 2018


Leonid Khochiev, About Camels and Sheep


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Leonid talks about how people bred camels and sheep in the past.

Collection: Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Project (LIVESTOCK BREEDING/CAMELS)

Institution: Department of Archaeology and Anthropology

Created: Fri 27 Jul 2018


Leonid Ochir-Goryaev, About Camels


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Leonid talks about the Kalmyk species of camel.

Collection: Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Project (LIVESTOCK BREEDING/CAMELS)

Institution: Department of Archaeology and Anthropology

Created: Tue 23 May 2017


Polina Fedorova, About Camel Meat


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In the past, the Kalmyks ate beef and horse meat. The poor ate camel meat. People who ate camel meat had pimples on their faces. The camel’s pelt and humps were used to make...

Collection: Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Project (LIVESTOCK BREEDING/CAMELS)

Institution: Department of Archaeology and Anthropology

Created: Tue 31 May 2016


Polina Fedorova, How to Make Female Camels Accept Their Newborn


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Sometimes female camels reject their calves. Female camels are jealous and squeamish animals. If a child touched a calf, its mother could reject it. In order to help the calf...

Collection: Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Project (LIVESTOCK BREEDING/CAMELS)

Institution: Department of Archaeology and Anthropology

Created: Wed 1 Jun 2016


Sangadzhi-Garya Dzhekiev, About Camels


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Sangadzhi-Garya reminisces about the camels that he saw in his childhood. Requiring no care or supervision, camels grazed by themselves. Since their tongues are hard, they could...

Collection: Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Project (LIVESTOCK BREEDING/CAMELS)

Institution: Department of Archaeology and Anthropology

Created: Thu 14 Mar 2019


Tatyana Dordzhieva, About Camels


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Tatyana reminisces about her childhood experience of witnessing a camel being slaughtered. She also says that when a she-camel rejects her calf, Kalmyka sing a song called...

Collection: Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Project (LIVESTOCK BREEDING/CAMELS)

Institution: Department of Archaeology and Anthropology

Created: Sat 13 Jul 2019


Valeriy Bolaev, Ulyumdzhi Mandzhiev, About Camels


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Valeriy says that there are only 5,000 camels left that can be described as of Kalmyk breed. The majority of them are in Astrakhan oblast’.
Ulyumdzhi Mandzhiev adds that camels...

Collection: Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Project (LIVESTOCK BREEDING/CAMELS)

Institution: Department of Archaeology and Anthropology

Created: Thu 28 Apr 2016


Vasiliy Sukhotaev, About Camel Breeding


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Vasiliy says the following: Many children today have never even seen a camel because almost no one keeps them anymore. In the past we had many camels that pulled carts and were...

Collection: Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Project (LIVESTOCK BREEDING/CAMELS)

Institution: Department of Archaeology and Anthropology

Created: Sun 5 May 2019