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Reference (shelfmark):: 1783.cc.11(154)
Title:: Une femme Juive de Samarkand en atours de cérémonie. Photographer: Krafft, Hugues
Scope & Content:: Genre: Portrait Photography Facing p. 154. Three-quarter length portrait of a young Jewish woman of Samarkand, standing in front of a textile hanging and wearing her finest clothes, comprising a robe decorated with flower motifs and a scarf and headpiece.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1898-1899
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1783.cc.11(158)
Title:: Une femme Juive de Samarkand coiffée d'un diadème de perles et d'émeraudes. Photographer: Krafft, Hugues
Scope & Content:: Genre: Portrait Photography Facing p. 158. Half-length portrait of a young Jewish woman of Samarkand, wearing a jewelled headpiece.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1898-1899
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1783.cc.11(160)
Title:: Une jeune femme Tadjik de Samarkand jouant du doutar. Photographer: Krafft, Hugues
Scope & Content:: 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.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1898-1899
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1783.cc.11(168)
Title:: Musulmans assis sous une tente pendant les fêtes du Sâli-Naou. Photographer: Krafft, Hugues
Scope & Content:: Genre: Portrait Photography Facing p. 168. Portrait of two Muslim men, seated cross-legged beneath the awning of a tent during the religious festival.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1898-1899
Extent:: 1 item

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.11(184)
Title:: La grande course à Afrasiab pendant les fêtes du Sâli-Naou. Photographer: Krafft, Hugues
Scope & Content:: 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.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1898-1899
Extent:: 1 item

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