SPRING IN HENTII (eastern Mongolia)
Introductions
Catch 'em if you can...
The whole gang rounds up new horses from the herd; Jagaa describes how it's done.
Everyday -- the same, more or less…
Jagaa's wife, Monjago leads us through a typical workday in spring: cleaning out pens, marking sheep, separating them, keeping them organized, herding, milking cows.
Legs First: A difficult birth
Hoiga and Monjago guide a sheep as it struggles to give birth far from the ger.
Night Games
Hooting and hollering at night as everyone works – every night - to separate calves from their mothers and put them in the pens.
Passing Time
On a very windy afternoon, everyone is indoors, playing cards in the ger.
A Formidable Woman
Horse trainer, Munkh-TseTseg describes how she gets her fast horses ready for Naadam.
Money flying in the wind
Careful as you brush goats, every bit of cashmere that flies away is money – so says Tsolmon and the boys as they brush goats and sing.
Bataaha
An evening talking to Bataaha about spring and "malchin" herder life.
A 'Morin Huur' afternoon
Interviews with Jagaa & Monjago on how they met, how she's a "dragon" but he loves her anyway and the whole family singing the "12 Years" song.
Kids at Play
Saraa gets a new Barbie doll and the kids play the Chinggis Khaan song game in the ger.
Two Visitors
Shar Ho & Demee visit from Bayan Adraga village and share some traditional 'ortiin artiin' songs.
The Move
As summer approaches, Monjago and Jagaa move close to the river. Interviews with all of them, including the kids and sounds of the day-long moving process.
Soum Life: Bayan Adraga selects
Visits to a nursery school, the phone center, the herder kids dormitory, a store and Monjago's mother in the soum (village) of Bayan-Adraga.
Chingiss Who?
In Dadal village, the birthplace of Chingiss Khan, residents share what they know and what they don't about the legend, the man (and his height, weight and appearance).
Deluun Boldog
Bayraa, Tsolmon and Ulaanaa recall what they know about Chingiss Khaan's childhood as we sit overlooking the valley where he is meant to have been born and raised.
