"We don't even have bridles any more," - character Boshor in Zoli p.2. Go to this site for the close bond between Gypsy and the horse, at "The Gypsy Horse," www.novareinna.com/romani/horse.html
The government effectuated a halt to the traveling, in the book using Zoli's fame and talent as an example for why the Gypsies should be "allowed" to stop the primtivism of moving about, put the in government housing with amenities, living in the forest is bizarre, old-fashioned, see Zoli at 106. So the govt in Slovakia burned the caravan and wagon wheels, and took away the horses, Zoli p.___. Law 74. Zoli 121, 123.
This did not happen in Romania, where so many depend on horses for everyday work and transportation.
This is a scene in Romania, with the owner of the horse just out of view, watching us quietly. We seldom asked anyone to be photographed. Up to them, politely. So many horsecarts, and hard to know who is Gypsy and who is not, among the impoverished. People do not wear distinctive dress necessarily, depending on the occasion. Men working blend in, sometimes with headwear that is different, and some women and young girls may be in long, sweeping skirts, looking out of doorways, half hidden, or at a bus stop with children, but many others are simply poor. Not all, of course.
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