Portrait photo of Tadzhikskie svadebnye obriady. Brakosochetanie (hikkakh)
Summary
Photograph shows a group of men seated on the ground.
Illus. in: Turkestanskīĭ alʹbom, chastʹ ėtnograficheskai︠a︡..., 1871-1872, part 2, vol. 1, pl. 72.
"Hikkakh" translated from Arabic as "Islamic wedding ceremony."
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
Location
asia
Source
Library of Congress
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