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Milking the yak

Milking the yak

Yushu Tibet Autonomous Prefecture

Tibetan nomad women milk the yaks every day. Other chores they do include cooking the meals and collecting yak dung to dry. There are few trees in many parts of Tibet so yak dung is used as fuel for fires.

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