Irulegi Irratia

II-051b

  • Record: II-051b
  • Piece: A03
  • Time: 00:14:50 - 00:23:00
  • Themes: jobs: , animal husbandry:
  • Summary: They brought the sheep up in May and later, they came back down about the fifteenth of July to shear them. At that time there was no road to allow up the machine and the shepherds would come together at the huts and there was no kitchen for cooking.There was two hours walk from the hut down to the house. The following morning they would start the shearing at dawn. To bring the sheep down again they would put on bells. At the shearing there was always a bit of a party and there still is. In the evening they would sing and play cards and sometimes, they would spend the whole night at cards and start shearing the next morning without having gone home. So as not to leave his friends he has sometimes left the sheep unmilked. (21:08") Pedro, a shepherd from Ibañeta: how they have problems to bring down the wool, because of the customs officers they would shear the sheep above. They would make more profit by shearing below but, at least for some people, there are customs controls when you carry the wool.