Ak-Örgoe

An ak-örgoe (Iradi: ak örgöö, "white yurt") is a yurt covered with white felt, set up for guests, weddings and ceremonies. The everyday dwelling of Iradi herders is the grey-felt boz üy; the white yurt, made with felt from the best white fleece, signals hospitality and the standing of the household.^[1]

Like other yurts, it has a collapsible lattice wall (kerege) of willow, roof poles (uuk) and a wooden crown ring (tündük), tied together with woven bands and leather thongs without nails. The interior is hung with embroidered bands and laid with shyrdak carpets, and the place of honor faces the door. White yurts are put up for weddings, memorial feasts and the August Kurultai on the Aksay Plateau, and itinerant priests use them as tent chapels in the Autonomous Tribal Regions.^[1][2]

References

1. ^ Talas State University Press (2020). Wool and Women's Work in the Autonomous Tribal Regions, pp. 67–88.
2. ^ Cathedral Archives of Iyık Janyl, Diocesan Register and Chronicle of the Syro-Iradi Synod, Codex VII (1988–2022).