Ger has been used since the Mongols started nomadic life with animal husbandry. A ger consists of felt covers (deever, tuurga), wooden columns (bagana) and a toono (a square window) and uni or thin wooden poles and floor, khana or wall (wooden lattice attached together with animals’ hide ropes 0 and ropes.Most of ger materials are made of animals like felt-sheep wool, ropes-camel or sheep wool, horse or yaks‘ tail, and of course wood. A ger size depends on the owners’ wealth, khana numbers decide the size, the biggest ger in Mongolia or in the world was called Bat-Olziit and its diameter was 40 m and it had 32 khans. A usual Mongol ger has 5 khanas and 88 unis.
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