I’ve put up a page analysing the examples of Khitan tents in the version of 18 Songs of a Nomad Flute published by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Includes yurts/gers of various sizes and complexity, canopy porches, attached vestibules, and wedge tents.
The beautifully detailed illustrations provide a wealth of information about the material culture of one of the 12th Century “proto-Mongol” steppe cultures, on the eve of the Mongol Empire. The Met offers the full book as a PDF download.
Added gallery of armor in two of the Mongolian museums we visted in 2012.
Added a new gallery. Half are photos of the deer stones at Uushigiin Uver, & the other half are from the exhibit at the Military History Museum in Ulaanbaatar.
Note for the Internet at large: This article is about Court ceremonies in the context of the Society for Creative Anachronism, and the people surveyed are New Zealand-based participants in that organization.
I posed the following questions on several local mailing lists, following up responses either in private or on the list as the respondent did:
What makes Court fun/entertaining?
What do you dislike about Court (and if you avoid it, why)?
Stuff I want to get done (in no particular order):
