Tadzhikskie remeslennye obriady (arbai pir). Posbieshchenie [sic] v tsiekh (rida andakhten)

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Tadzhikskie remeslennye obriady (arbai pir). Posbieshchenie [sic] v tsiekh (rida andakhten)

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Photograph shows three men standing and conducting an initiation ceremony(?) for a group of men seated on a rug(?) outdoors.

Illus. in: Turkestanskīĭ alʹbom, chastʹ ėtnograficheskai︠a︡..., 1871-1872, part 2, vol. 2, pl. 91.
"Arbai pir" translated from Persian as "Saint of the Cart Guild." "Rida andakhten" translated from Persian as "gaining admittance."

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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01/01/1865
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