Yak hides are often similar to bear hides, depending on the length of their hair at slaughter. Skulls with large horns retail between $200 and $300. Butter and Cheese.

BASIN -- For centuries, Tibetan artists using tiny brushes made from such exotic materials as hair harvested in late winter from the scruff of the neck of a feral cat ...

Bleu also introduces us to koo, dried yak hide that is rehydrated and cooked for 12 hours in Sichuan peppercorns and perilla ...

The ranch is about a decade old, but its origins go back to the 1970s, when Hackett was a volunteer doctor in Nepal. He saw how enmeshed the yak was in Sherpa life — used to transport goods and ...