Un chevalier chaussé de bottes à haut talons pointus [buzkashi rider at Afrasiab, Samarkand]. Photographer: Krafft, Hugues
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Genre: Portrait Photography Facing p. 174. Full-length portrait of one of the riders in the buzkashi (Turki: kok-boru)competition at Afrasiab, posed to display his high-heeled riding boots.
La grande course à Afrasiab pendant les fêtes du Sâli-Naou. Photographer: Krafft, Hugues
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Facing p. 184. General view of the great concourse of horsemen on the hillside and in the valley below, gathered for a buzkashi (Turki: kok-boru) match, in which riders compete to score 'goals' with the headless body of a goat.