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In Blood Red: The Weavings of Central Asia's Turkomans |
| Section: CULTURE / PEOPLES |
| Author: Jane Schreibmann |
| Publication:
The World & I Online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/1997 |
| Size: 1,937 Words, 11,684 Characters |
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"In a faraway land, covered with high rocks and deep caves, there live creatures called the Chin-Chin. They have the form of human beings but are completely covered with hair and are less than two feet tall. "
"These beings live in the deepest, most inaccessible caves. Because they have no knees, these creatures cannot bend their legs. Somehow they are able to propel themselves about in a hopping motion.
Hunters come to this land. They lure the creatures out of the caves by digging holes in the rocks in the form of vases and filling the "vases" with ale. Then they hide.
The creatures come hopping out of their caves and congregate around the ale, drinking and saying "chin, chin" to one another. This is why they have been given the name Chin-Chin.
After a while the inebriated Chin-Chin fall asleep on the rocks. Now the hunters come out of hiding. They bind the sleeping creatures by the hands and feet, then puncture a hole in the vein of each Chin-Chin's neck. They take three or four drops of blood from each victim.
The hunters then untie the creatures and depart. When the Chin-Chin awake they hop back to their caves, unaware th...
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...ad been abandoned when chemical dyes arrived on the market. The indigo plant produces a deep blue color. Yellow comes from buckthorn berries or a special grass. Walnut shells are used for tans, black comes from acorn cups mixed with iron, and white is silk's natural color. And for the red, well, perhaps a few drops of Chin-Chin blood are mixed with the madder roots boiling in one of the vats.
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