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Forty days after the death (from battle with cancer) of Saidol, the former village chief, a ceremony is celebrated in his honor. Here, men from surrounding villages are eating "bat", a mixture of flour, water, salt and oil made of yak butter. The traditional life of the Wakhi people, in the Wakhan corridor, amongst the Pamir mountains.

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A walk through time, Afghanistan - 2017
Forty days after the death (from battle with cancer) of Saidol, the former village chief, a ceremony is celebrated in his honor. Here, men from surrounding villages are eating "bat", a mixture of flour, water, salt and oil made of yak butter. The traditional life of the Wakhi people, in the Wakhan corridor, amongst the Pamir mountains.