Un Tadjik d'Ourgout en vêtement de cotonnade. Photographer: Krafft, Hugues
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Genre: Portrait Photography Facing p. 146. Three-quarter length portrait of Tajik man of Urgut, standing in front of a brick wall and dressed in a striped cotton robe and cap.
Divertissement de Batcha (danseurs) dans le vestibule d'une maison particulière [Samarkand]. Photographer: Krafft, Hugues
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Genre: Portrait Photography Facing p. 178. Group of Batcha dancers performing in the vestibule of a private house. These young male dancers took the place of females in a culture where women could dance in public. On reaching adulthood, they quit the profession. The location is unspecified, but...
Une jeune femme Tadjik de Samarkand jouant du doutar. Photographer: Krafft, Hugues
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Genre: Portrait Photography Facing p. 160. Full-length portrait of a young Tajik woman of Samarkand, seated cross-legged on cushions, playing the doutar (dutar), the long-necked two-stringed lute of Central Asia.
Une femme Ouzbeg de Kokan coiffée du topi. Photographer: Krafft, Hugues
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Genre: Portrait Photography Facing p. 148. Three-quarter length portrait of a young Uzbek woman of Kokand (Qo'qon), her hair plaited and wearing a topi hat, her left hand placed on her hip.