Aqa Jari Tribe
The
first of these three groups of nomads is the Aqa Jari tribe. They assign their
origin to several Turkish, Persian, and Lur tribes.
In
ancient times their households amounted from three to five thousand or even
more, but now they number only about eight hundred. They are divided into a
number of sub-tribes.
They
remain in the neighbourhood of Bihbihan, which has the climate of the Garm-Sir
(hot country) both winter and summer. Their abode in the winter is the black
tent of the desert. In the summer they dwell in houses which they construct
with the branches and leaves of the willow, and these are to be found on the
banks of the rivers near Bihbihan.
In
the rolling and hilly country they carry on agriculture without irrigation.
Since they are not in the majority in the villages around Bihbihan, they have
not given their name to that district.
D. Austin Lane, Hajji Mirza Hasan-i-Shirazi on the
Nomad Tribes of Fars in the Fars-Nameh-i-Nasiri, JRAS 1923, p. 218.
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