A woman holds a goat by the horns, gently, while another takes a pair of scissors to its hair, cutting all of the excess, letting it fall to the ground in heaps. A few moments later, she begins to coax the hair, tapping it with two wooden sticks, then knocking the sticks together three times, tap, tap, tap, and with her knowing hands, she twirls the hair gently around the stick, and begins to make the weave of hair into tight knots. When the women start weaving the knots of hair together to make a large, patterned tapestry which would then form a liveable tent, they sing.
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