Issik-bulak Valley and snows towards Sarhad from Kotal, below Yol-mazar, Chong Pamir Valley. Photographer: Stein, Marc Aurel
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Genre: Landscape Photography 'Old cultivation terraces were met with at Yol-mazar at an elevation of about 12,500 feet. About three miles lower we passed on the left bank the mouth of a wide grassy valley, known as Issik-bulak from a hot spring...' Subjects = archaeological expeditions; archa...
Fatteh Ali Shah's Kala at Kala-i-Panja, from north (enlarged). Photographer: Stein, Marc Aurel
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Genre: Landscape Photography PUBLISHED: 'Innermost Asia', vol. 2, fig. 398: 'Kala-i-Panja, seen from right bank of Ab-i-Panja.' 'Four miles below Zang we passed in full view of Kala-i-Panja, the seat of the Mirs of Wakhan in modern times and now occupied by the chief Afghan post in the valley. ...
Ihsan Karim Ali Shah, Pir of Wakhan Maulais, at Wanukut. Photographer: Stein, Marc Aurel
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Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length seated portrait, similar to print 894. 'At the hamlet of Wenukut I was able to pay a visit to Ihsan Karim Ali Shah, the chief 'Pir' of the Ismailias of Wakhan, who was staying there to perform faith-healing on a sick 'Murid' or devotee. The old man, worsh...