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Mongolia: Pallas Cats are on free sale April 30, 2007

© Anna BarashkovaWhen surveying souvenir and art shops in the center of Ulaanbaatar the goods made from Pallas Cat fir were found. One fur-cap was on sale at the souvenir shop of the National Museum of Mongolian History. Two fir-caps ($22-24) were offered in the souvenir-art shop situated at Street. Two fir coats made from Pallas cats were seen in the department of traditional Mongolian goods on the 5-th floor of large Department Store. Each coat costs about $220 only. Besides this there was a fir-cap with Pallas Cat tail in the Depatment Store.

© Anna Barashkova

Source: Anna Barashkova


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