Syr-dar'inskaia oblast'. Kirgizskaia dorozhnaia kibitka. Dzhulani [sic.]
Summary
Photograph shows men, their belongings, a camel and a horse by a kibitka, or yurt.
Illus. in: Turkestanskīĭ alʹbom, chastʹ ėtnograficheskai︠a︡..., 1871-1872, part 2, vol. 2, pl. 92.
"Dzhulani [sic.]" translated from Turkic as "tent."
A comprehensive visual survey of Central Asia undertaken after imperial Russia assumed control of the region in the 1860s. Commissioned by General Konstantin Petrovich von Kaufman (1818–82), the first governor-general of Russian Turkestan.
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Date
01/01/1865
Source
Library of Congress
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