supervises the construction of the the traditional tuckman tent. today they are just an old custom but for centuries these mobile units provided shelter for entire extended families against the harsh weather on the plains even though they are built of lightweight wood that the family burns dried frankincense to ward off bad luck after on a wedding will take place in this year and. i doubt. that. eighty one year old go whomp a distant great-aunt was born in a. little look though to own yet doesn't i've been putting up your it since i was ten i got married when i was ten. people my age still know how to do it but the youth of today don't anymore. nor the divider from here to the middle the adults slept on one side and the children on the. either here at the front is where my four daughters in law slept. here due to the wonder twins and relatives came we kill a sheep we came to liver and heart here and grill the meat outside for the guests good times were good back then. the next day marks the start of the three day waiting celebration caught him will

of iran it is home to a formerly no magic group of peoples with a long tradition and history the tuckman. hot dry summers and bitter cold winters dic take down lives for only a few weeks a year the hells come to life with the pale green of spring it's said to be the most beautiful time of the year. traditionally it's also the festive season. of a top ten near the border of turkmenistan is a ten hour drive from tehran. over the last century a town of five thousand inhabitants has grown around what was once a line stop watering sight. no morals to the tuchman poet marked can be found everywhere in the region. more than twelve million turkmen live in central asia half of them in the young republican turkmenistan. these nomads who were famous for their love of horses only began settling in fixed locations joe nine hundred twenty s. . today their daily lives of the nearly two million iranian turkmen differs little from those of their fellow citizens but the turkmen still trying to preserve many of their control traditions. even the youngest practiced the customs of their ancestors dressed in