The wild girls of the Wagon Peoples are much prized as slaves within the walled city of Turia, and none are more coveted than the leather-clad riders of the Tuchuks. Their pride and willfullness make them excellent slaves, for no Master wishes to enslave a girl who has not the spirit to fight Him. They are variously called Kajira (slave) or Sa-Fora (Daughter of the Chain, or Chain Daughter).
By contrast, the Tuchuks prefer the highborn beauties of Turia to serve them. They will pay well for such slaves at auction. As Tarl Cabot tells us:
Some of the plainer women are sold for as little as a brass cup. A really beautiful girl, particularly if of free birth and high caste, might bring as much as forty pieces of gold. Such are, however, rarely sold. The Wagon Peoples enjoy being served by civilized slaves of great beauty and high station. During the day, in the heat and dust, such girls will care for the wagon bosk and gather fuel for the dung fires. At night they will please their masters.
The leather chatka and curla of the Tuchuk slavegirl has already been discussed, but it is not the sole costume worn by kajirae in the camps of the Wagon Peoples. The Tuchuks, as nomadic raiders, frequently loot merchant caravans travelling across the plains, and come into possession of many things not produced by themselves. One such thing is silk, generally from Tyros. As Tarl Cabot says:
The Wagon Peoples are sometimes willing to barter silks to the Turians, but commonly they keep these for their own slave girls, who wear them in the secrecy of the wagons. Free women, incidentally, among the Wagon Peoples are not permitted to wear silk; it is claimed by those of the Wagons, delightfully I think, that any woman who loves the feel of silk on her body is, in the secrecy of her heart and blood, a slave girl, whether or not some master has yet forced her to don the collar.
The dances of the Tuchuk kajirae are legendary. The words used to describe them are "barbarous", "savage", "startling", "uncontrolled" and "wild". They are love dances, seductive in the extreme, and go a long way towards explaining why the Turians so value Tuchuk slave girls. Their passion is unparalleled, their heat fierce. To hold such a girl enslaved in the collar of submission is an experience without equal on Gor.
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