Kozhkar Clan

The Kozhkar Clan is a dwarven clan specializing in the production and tanning of leather. Their culture resembles that of cowboys.

Culture
Kozhkar live in wagons that are their homes - the wagons are typically single-room homes with four bunks along the sides, a cooking pot with two benches besides it towards the front, and provisions and equipment strapped to the sides. A typical Kozhkar family will have anywhere between two and six wagons.

Each Kozhkar family also owns a tanning wagon or two - a flatbed cart with tanning equipment and racks on it. Kozhkar wagons of a single family will be tied together with ropes, forming a line, with the tanning wagons in the rear. Each wagon is pulled by a pair of oxen.

Kozhkar families join together in tribes of a half-dozen families, led by a chieftain. These tribes collectively herd the cow, horse, bison, buffalo, antelope, and goat herds of each family. A family typically owns a hundred or so animals, the most prosperous owning herds of up to five-hundred animals.

At night tribes will circle up their wagons and lock them together, containing their animals inside the wagons. Sometimes there will be a meeting with the chieftain and elders of each family, but typically the families entertain themselves by hunting, playing cards, or getting drunk.

Every three months, Kozhkar will send two or three members from each family to sell the leather produced by the tribe. The prices are identical for each family in a tribe, and the proceeds are divided proportionally by how many hides each family produced.