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Reference (shelfmark):: 1783.cc.11(172)
Title:: Une course au bouc dans le grand ravin d'Afrasiab. Photographer: Krafft, Hugues
Scope & Content:: Facing p. 172. Showing riders and spectators gathered for a buzkashi match at Afrasiab, to the north of Samarkand.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1898-1899
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1783.cc.11(174)
Title:: Un chevalier chaussé de bottes à haut talons pointus [buzkashi rider at Afrasiab, Samarkand]. Photographer: Krafft, Hugues
Scope & Content:: 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.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1898-1899
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1783.cc.11(176)
Title:: Le Starchii-Aksakal de Samarkand en grande costume de cérémonie. Photographer: Krafft, Hugues
Scope & Content:: Genre: Portrait Photography Facing p. 176. Full-length standing portrait of the Aksakal of Samarkand, dressed in an elaborately decorated robe and turban, with a curved sword hanging from his belt.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1898-1899
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1783.cc.11(178)
Title:: Divertissement de Batcha (danseurs) dans le vestibule d'une maison particulière [Samarkand]. Photographer: Krafft, Hugues
Scope & Content:: 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...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1898-1899
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1783.cc.11(182)
Title:: Afrasiab, le jour de la grande course du Sâli-Naou. Photographer: Krafft, Hugues
Scope & Content:: Genre: Portrait Photography Facing p. 182. Group portrait of a row of seated dignitaries, with a line of Batcha dancers kneeling in front of them. Afrasiab, to the north of the city, was the location for the buzkashi matches at Samarkand.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1898-1899
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1783.cc.20(3)
Title:: La cuisine de la Malocca N.4, qui se trouve toujours à une petite distance de l'habitation. Photographer: Frisch, Albert
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography General view of an Indian cooking hut in a clearing, always situated apart from the 'malocca' or communal living house, with three figures posed in the open-sided thatched structure. Various implements and utensils - cooking pots, baskets and tools - are includ...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1865
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1783.cc.20(6)
Title:: Sitio de Tapuyas (métis), avec toute une famille, au lac de Ixiticca, avec plantation de Capaçu (cacao blanc). Photographer: Frisch, Albert
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography Mixed-race Tapuya family group, posed in front of their open-sided thatched hut, situated in a cocoa plantation near Lake Ixiticca (location untraced). 'Sitio' means a country house or farm in both Spanish and Portuguese .
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1865
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1783.cc.20(7)
Title:: Sitio de Tapuyas (métis), au bord du Solimões avec 2 arbres Assacu, dont la sêve brûle instantanément la peau. Photographer: Frisch, Albert
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography Mixed-race Tapuya family group posed in front of their thatched house in a forest clearing on the Solimões (Amazon). The poisonous trees mentioned in the caption, a little over five feet high, stand in front of the house. 'Sitio' means a country house or farm in...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1865
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1783.cc.20(10)
Title:: Manáos. Une famille de Tapuyas, à la porte de leur maison, dans une rue de la ville. Photographer: Frisch, Albert
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography Group portrait of a Tapuya family at Manaus, posed in front of the entrance to their home. The walls of the row of houses are constructed of baked mud bricks with wattle courses. A woman sits with a spinning wheel on the left (see also print 41).
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1865
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1783.cc.20(11)
Title:: Campement de bateliers Boliviens, s'embarquant dans le port de Manáos. Photographer: Frisch, Albert
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography Group portrait of Bolivian boatmen and their families, posed on the bank of the Rio Negro at Manaus.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1865
Extent:: 1 item

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