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Peoples of Russia
Pamiris
Pamiris are a complex of small-numbered Iranian peoples.
Language
They speak diverse Pamiri languages of the Eastern Iranian group of the Iranian branch of the Indo-European family.
Traditional occupations
Agriculture, cattle-breeding; wool processing, fabric making, knitting, woodwork, pottery, hunting.
Traditional food
Meat is eaten rarely. The main food ingredients are noodles, scones, fruit, walnuts, vegetables, legumes, sheep cheese, sour milk, milky tea. The wheat or flour dishes are boiled with vegetables or fruit; flour-based dishes are never boiled with meat. The ritual dishes include crepes, havlo, ozaq – pieces of dough fried in butter, and kashk – a gruel cooked from wheat, kidney beans, peas and lentils during the firing of the earthenware; the pot in which kashk is made is put near the mound of earthenware being fired and the kashk should be cooked on that fire. It is eaten only by female master potters and other women and not given to men.
