Sunday, April 06, 2014
Turkmeni Falconry
Some of you know Vadim Gorbatov's painting of a Turcoman falconer waiting out a sandstorm with tazi and saker.
Sir Terence Clarke just sent this excellent little video of hunting there. My Ataika, though born in Kazakhstan, is rather a Turkmeni type. And the falconry is almost just like the kind we practice but for camels. Also, taxonomists might note that the little local sakers resemble prairie falcons, very different from the great Altai type far to the northeast, which is hard to tell from a gyr...
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A nice, tight insight on Turkmeni Falconry. Interesting to see how the dogs were clad with "jackets" for the cold night and that the Dutch oven bread cookery was without the Dutch oven.
Fantastic film--I'd MUCH rather pay to see stuff like this on the Big Screen than the usual Hollywood fare out there--I would sit through 3 hours of just such footage with pleasure, as the next best thing to actually BEING THERE!.....L.B.
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