Friday, 10 January 2020

Watchtowers on houses of Pashtuns


Tower in the village of Sadda, Kurram valley, 1895 (c). Photo by Frederick Saint John Gore.

Houses of the Afridis, Khyber Pass,1948. Photo by Henri Cartier-Bresson. Source

An Afridi village, Khyber Pass, c1900s. Postcard photo by Kapoor & Sons.

British officers searching the house of Faqir of Ipi for documents, Waziristan , 1937. From the issue of "The Illustrated London News" dated April 17, 1937. .

A Pashtun village with watchtowers on houses, perhaps a Shinwari village of Khyber, 1923. Photo by R.B.Holmes.

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