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Photograph by Adam Warwick 

 A MONGOL GUEST TENT WITH WOODEN DOORWAY AND A MONGOL FAMILY GROUP 



Photograph from Horace Brodzky 



THE INTERIOR 01- A YURT, OR MONGOLIAN TENT-IIOUSE 



Note the god, an American lamp, and the glass-fronted cupboard with small cups, which 

 contain (lour, cakes, tobacco, and rice — offerings to the god. A yurt is never placed where 

 the shadow of a tree can fall upon it, for this brings bad luck. It is made of trellis and 

 covered with felt. The fire is laid in the middle of the one room, and the smoke allowed to 

 find its way out through a hole in the roof. When it rains, this hole is covered up, with 

 consequences easy to imagine. 



