Afridi women, 1920s

Photo of two old Afridi women, 1920. One who is quite blind from cataract, is being led to the Shifakhana by her friend. Source: "Frontier folk of the Afghan border--and beyond" by Lilian Agnes Starr.

Afridi women harvesting, 1897. From ''The Graphic'', 28th August, 1897.

Pashtun female patients, Duchess of Connaught Hospital, Peshawar, August 1914 Source 1, Source 2. 

 

Pashtun women, captioned as "trans-border sugar-cane vendors", 1920 (c).Photo by R.B.Holmes. Courtesy Farrukh Husain. Here, the border likely refers to the one between 'tribal areas' and 'settled areas.' The women's dress matches that of Afridi women in some other photos from the same period.