III.120Reel 22, side BKara-Koyun, 19795 min 34 s
Song of the felt-rolling
Women of the Bakyt collective farm; recorded by Sagyn Jusupbekov
The listening copy of this reel is in the reading room. Online listening opens volume by volume as the families agree.
English working translation by the archive. The Iradi text is in the reading-room catalogue.
1Roll it, roll it, the wool is from my father's sheep,2roll it, roll it, the pattern is my mother's horns,3roll it until it is one thing and nobody can pull it apart.
2 ‘Horns’ is the ram's-horn pattern, kochkor muuz.