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Ikhbal (right) arriving at Tash Seri camp, her husband's camp, and kissing on the lip her future mother in law. .With Ikhbal, the recently married woman moving for the first time to her husband's camp..She just exchanged the red veil of the unmarried girl for the white veil signifying that she is now a married woman...Trekking through the high altitude plateau of the Little Pamir mountains, where the Afghan Kyrgyz community live all year, on the borders of China, Tajikistan and Pakistan.

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Contained in galleries: Pamir, Winter 2012

Ikhbal (right) arriving at Tash Seri camp, her husband's camp, and kissing on the lip her future mother in law. .With Ikhbal, the recently married woman moving for the first time to her husband's camp..She just exchanged the red veil of the unmarried girl for the white veil signifying that she is now a married woman...Trekking through the high altitude plateau of the Little Pamir mountains, where the Afghan Kyrgyz community live all year, on the borders of China, Tajikistan and Pakistan.