Typical tent of the nomads
There
are nomads in Iran and you can still find them. As I pointed out in my account
on the nomads in Tibet, they also try to stay near roads as they use trucks to
carry tents and belongings. Maybe having access to reception for their cell
phones plays a role, too. They may own a house or a shed somewhere besides the
tents, but they have to migrate because of uncertain rain and grass for their
life stock, mostly sheep and goats. Not all nomads are pastoralists, though.
In the
photographs you will notice that they also have to bring water.
I think
that the people you see in my pictures belong to the Bakhtiari (بختیاری), who are a southwestern Iranian
tribe, [which is the region, where I took the pictures. They speak Bakhtiari,
which is a dialect of the Lurish language. Daughter in Farsi is doxtar (دختر), in German Tochter, in
Bakhtiari dōder and in Minjai (another Lurish dialect) duxter. So the language
is Indo-European.
Maybe
you have heard about the Iranian actress Behnoosh Bakhtiari (بهنوش بختیاری).
15 years
ago in preparing a journey to Iran, we watched the famous documentary Grass:
A Nation's Battle for Life (1925), which tells “the story of the migration
of Bakhtiari tribe from winter quarters in Khuzestan to summer quarters Chahar
Mahaal”. The movie is available on DVD.
A hearty greeting
Different tent sites in lonelier regions
Near a gas station
A successful pastoralist
The daughters of the pastoralist
They took my photograph, too
Tents, water container, pick-up, motor-bike, bike ...
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