Tibetan Nomad Material Culture of Sokpa Village

Across the Tibetan Plateau, many nomads no longer live in tents or use the tools that were once essential to traditional nomadic life. Those tools that remain gather dust in storerooms, while the people who know how to make and use them grow older.  Nevertheless, these materials and the related oral traditions remain valuable features of Tibetan cultural heritage. This documentary was produced with the support of the people of Sokpa, a village of 300 people located in Gangtsa Tibetan Township, Xunhua County, Qinghai Province, China, and one of the only remaining nomadic communities in the region. In [MONTH] of 2016, The Black Tent Films sent three fieldworkers to Sokpa Village to interview villagers about their traditional tools and to document how they made and used them. This documentary includes some of what we learned.