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Qydel Nissa, born winter 2007, has an eagle head on her cradle, to keep bad spirits away..Campment of Ortobil (Sufi), all the way at the end of the Little Pamir, near the Tajik/China border. .Winter expedition through the Wakhan Corridor and into the Afghan Pamir mountains, to document the life of the Afghan Kyrgyz tribe. January/February 2008. Afghanistan

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Contained in galleries: Pamir, winter 2008, Afghanistan. Unvisited since 1972

Qydel Nissa, born winter 2007, has an eagle head on her cradle, to keep bad spirits away..Campment of Ortobil (Sufi), all the way at the end of the Little Pamir, near the Tajik/China border. .Winter expedition through the Wakhan Corridor and into the Afghan Pamir mountains, to document the life of the Afghan Kyrgyz tribe. January/February 2008. Afghanistan