A successful pick-up [game of baghi or baigu, Tagharma]. Photographer: Sykes, Percy Molesworth
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Reproduced in Ella and Percy Sykes, Through Deserts and Oases of Central Asia (London: 1920), p. 150b: 'We made one of our longest halts on the fine grazing ground of Tagharma, a broad plain with encampments at intervals ... One day the Kirghiz gave a display of the baigu, or 'goat game,' which ...
A Ya-Yieh or Yamen runner. Photographer: Sykes, Percy Molesworth
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Full-length standing portrait, wearing a waistcoat emblazoned with Chinese characters. Reproduced in Ella and Percy Sykes, Through Deserts and Oases of Central Asia (London: 1920), frontispiece.
A cart in the Osh Oasis. Photographer: Sykes, Percy Molesworth
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Pony cart with large wooden wheels and distinctive covering formed from plaited switches of wood. Reproduced in Ella and Percy Sykes, Through Deserts and Oases of Central Asia (London: 1920), p. 26.