A soothsayer [Kashgar]. Photographer: Sykes, Percy Molesworth
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Full-length seated portrait of the magician or soothsayer, with his young assistant standing beside him, holding aloft a drum. Reproduced in Ella and Percy Sykes, Through Deserts and Oases of Central Asia (London: 1920), p. 314.
A Kashgar school. Photographer: Sykes, Percy Molesworth
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Teacher with pupils, standing courtyard reading from books. Reproduced in Ella and Percy Sykes, Through Deserts and Oases of Central Asia (London: 1920), p. 316: 'We visited the chief boys' school in Kashgar, where the master bade his favourite pupils recite passages from the Koran. This they di...
Group of three female musicians, seated on a carpet in a garden. The central figure plays a kind of guitar with a very long neck, the one on the right holds a tambourine. Reproduced in Ella and Percy Sykes, Through Deserts and Oases of Central Asia (London: 1920), p. 170.
Chinese soldiers at the feet of the War God [Kashgar]. Photographer: Sykes, Percy Molesworth
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Three Chinese soldiers standing in front of a large stone image of a lion at the Kashgar Yamen. Reproduced in Ella and Percy Sykes, Through Deserts and Oases of Central Asia (London: 1920), p. 74.