Mani Genkok Festival. A nomad rider firing blanks at a target as he gallops past. Following the grand opening, the riders ride past the crowd in turn and perform all sorts of acrobatics with their old muskets. Then, spurring their horses into a gallop, they fire blanks at a paper target extended between two posts stuck in the ground. When they hit the bull’s eye, a jet of powder shoots out of a cannon and the target collapses in clouds of white smoke. When they miss, the onlookers laugh good-naturedly. July 2004.