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Identifier: ruinsofdesertcat01stei (find matches)
Title: Ruins of desert Cathay : personal narrative of explorations in Central Asia and westernmost China
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Stein, Aurel, Sir, 1862-1943 Archaeological Survey of India
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Publisher: London : Macmillan
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lder of it as a fellow-craftsman. Thescanty remains of old fort walls at Jughor and Uchust hadlittle to teach me ; for their materials were only unhewnstones, scarcely distinguishable in their laying, etc., fromthe rough walls common at present in this region. Butthe views across the green valley, with the barrenmountain slopes behind rising abruptly to thousands offeet, were in each case lovely. On the last day of my stay I had the good fortuneto measure and photograph a number of Kafirs of theBashgali tribe who had found a refuge in the Mehtarsterritory when forcible conversion threatened them after theannexation of their old homes by the Afghans. Some twohundred families are said to be settled now in Bamburethand other nullahs above Ayun (Fig. 11), and the Mehtarhad obligingly ordered a representative set to come infor measurement (Fig. 15). Quiet and harmless the menlooked, in spite of their old reputation for savage crueltyin the days of independence. Only the shaven fore-part of
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KAFIRS AND THEIR DANCES 39 the head and the hair hanging down behind in wild tressessuggested the semi-barbarian. The anthropometric dataI could collect were mainly of interest as proving theclose affinity of these Kafirs with the more civilizedDard tribes farther east, as already suggested by linguisticevidence. But what a rich harvest could be gatheredhere by the student of old customs and folk-lore ! Mostof the refugees still adhere to their old * heathen creed,an inheritance probably from the days when the Dardtribes separated from the Iranian race, to be * shelvedas it were for ever in the inaccessible valleys of theHindukush. Want of time and of knowledge of their languagerendered it impossible for me even to touch this rich mineof anthropological lore so temptingly ready at hand. Butby Captain Knollyss kind care I was treated on the eveof my departure to a Kafir dance, in some respects theweirdest spectacle I have ever witnessed. It took placelate at night in a grove near the A

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