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Article: Changra and Changpa: Pashmina goats and their herders.(Report)
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- Marg, A Magazine of the Arts
- Article date:
- March 1, 2009
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For the grass that you have just eaten, oh goat, Give us some good pashm. For the water that you have just drunk, oh goat, Give us some good pashm. Sit down on the grass and be still, oh goat, So that we can take out your pashm.
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As they gently comb the pashm from their goats, taking care not to hurt the animals, the Changpa recite this song. The Changpa (northern people) are nomadic pastoralists, whose yak-hair tents are scattered throughout Tibetan and Ladakhi Changthang (northern plateau), a vast and complex terrain of flat expanses of land interspersed by mountains and valleys. For centuries they have lived in this bleak ...
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