Hamid Sardar is a professional photographer who is so famous. The man who is a graduate of the Inner Asian Language and Culture at Harvard University who holds a Ph.D. He was an adventurous and began his career at the National Geographic Society as an explorer.
Sardar who previously lived in Nepal and Tibet over the last decade, on a journey to Mongolia which he started from the Himalayas. There, he met with the tribes in the country whose population is almost extinct. Daily life of this tribe is unique and Sardar managed to record every moment of the a pictures below.
Here are 5 Unique Fact Of People Mongolia Living With Deer
1. Dukha Tribe
Dukkha tribe, a tribe last in Mongolia. Community of this tribe live in the mountains cold, because in this country does have a cold climate and even snow. Daily life, they always wear a sweater, made of animal fur. Look at the pictures below, really thick instead of the clothes they wear.
Sardar said, people here still live at one with nature. All the work they do is still the traditional ways and with the help of one species. This animal is so entrenched in their lives, and it seems they can not be separated from this branch horned animal.
2. Dukha Tribe, Reindeer People
The animals are deer, animals that have pronghorn. Dukha tribe uses reindeer to meet their daily needs. With diternakkannya these animals, all parts of it can be utilized. Starting from consuming meat to milk, milk sometimes it will also be processed into cheese.
Dukha for the tribe, so easy to tame a deer then menggembalanya for everyday purposes. Besides consumed, they also branched herding animals for hunting purposes. Usually they hunt here is the wild boar, which can also be in the consumption of meat. Life is very attached to the deer who had made the people here called Reindeer People or Human Deer
3. Etnich Dukha, Living In Nomadic
Dukkha tribal nomadic life, or on the move. The deer are also often used as a means of transport when they will be traveling. Therefore, every one of these groups certainly have deer that has been tamed earlier. How to move the still very traditional, yet they still look a happy life.
But along with the times, now the tribe that lives depend on this deer population declined. The current number is only about 200-300 souls and only stayed 44 heads of families were settled. Can be expected for the next few years, this rate will probably be lost and only a story.
4. Deer Population Declining
Not only reduced the number of human beings, but the deer population is also declining. Around 1970 the deer population was recorded as many as 2000. But the figure was more alone decreased. Until now unknown number of deer only live 600 population. This occurs due to predation and poaching.
Although the number of people still more, but considering the life of the tribe Dukha who can not escape from the deer of course this figure is very alarming. What if there is predation of deer here again ?, probably be exhausted and the people of the tribe were very friendly with this deer will also be extinct later. Because life is very dependent on the animals this one.
5. Population Decline As Gold Invention
The hunt deer Dukha rate may occur as a result of the discovery of gold in Mongolia. The discovery of high-value minerals makes the miners flock to this place. Perhaps for the sake of the survival of the miners when digging for gold, they hunted deer there.
Very unfortunate, but deer are good friends of the tribe Dukha. Given the nomadic way of life, where are they going to go if the deer population here touched zeros? It's sad, but this very man deer should be preserved. You think yourself, is there any way that this tribe survive?
In addition to documenting them in a photograph, Sardar also made a documentary on the life of this Dukha tribe. The film, titled "The People Reindeer" was awarded the "Banff Mountain Film Festival" as best documentary. The photographer said he deliberately perpetuating human rutininas deer because their numbers are low. Nice work, Sardar.
