Ponies returning with baggage to [Ayub] Mirab's house [Maral-bashi]. Photographer: Stein, Marc Aurel
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While in Maral-bashi, Stein stayed in 'my old camping-place in Ayub Mirab's garden, east of the tumble-down Bazar that marks the town of Maral-bashi.' (i, 74). (I.A. Map 8, A1). This photograph would have been taken on his return from Lal-tagh. Subjects = archaeological expeditions; archaeolo...
Camels in shallow of ford, Yarkand River, towards Chok-tagh. Photographer: Stein, Marc Aurel
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Genre: Landscape Photography Group of camels crossing the Yarkand River at Kuruk-aste at the start of the first attempt on the Taklamakan (see note at print 226). Subjects = archaeological expeditions; archaeology; camels; exploration; pack animals; river scenes; Stein Collection Location =...
Kasim Akhun, Tokhta Marghen, Tokhta Akhun of Islamabad and Dash, hunters at Sarghan-och. Photographer: Stein, Marc Aurel
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Genre: Portrait Photography PUBLISHED: 'Innermost Asia', vol. 1, fig. 86: 'Kasim Akhun, Aziz Pawan, and Tokhta-Akhun.' Kasim Akhun standing on left: 'Ever since my expedition to Dandan-oilik in 1900 I had learned to value and trust the pluck, sense of locality, and true desert instinct that a l...