[Steppes] Horse Blood Used For Dye?

[Ashia Yother]

I just want to clarify a couple of points here:

1.  The organization that I found this on is not claiming that the
practice in question is done in modern day.

2. I am not trying to get any political or animal rights conversation
involved here.  Whatever your opinions on cruelty to animals are not
what I am asking for here.  (if that was the case I think we all know
where I stand.)

I found it curious and an interesting note that is why I posted it
here.  I have e-mailed the organization, which happens to the be
Iberian Horse Registry, to see where they found the information that
they are supplying to those reading the pages.

Thanks everyone!


On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 07:45:26 -0600, Elaine Crittenden
<letebts at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Back in my mundane---'scuse me---"modern" days of being a gallery artist, I
> remember reading about a famous, Spain-Spanish, modern matador's using the
> blood of the bulls he killed in the ring for pen drawings he did of the
> bulls. I saw the reddish brown drawings accompanying the article. He had
> extraordinary talent in that field, too.
> 
> The use of the blood for drawings may have been unusual (the reason the
> article was written?), but the killing of the bull for an ancient game's
> sport for that people and the use of the expensive bull's carcass to feed
> their poor was not, whatever our personal opinions are, a different culture
> and an ocean away.
> 
> Lete
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MKA: Ashia Yother