Throwing mud at a Shrine as a cure for skin disease

Item Info

Title:
Throwing mud at a Shrine as a cure for skin disease
Date:
April 1915 to November 1915
Creator:
Sykes, Percy, Sir, 1867-1945
Description:

  • One woman in the act of plastering some mud on a wall. Appears as an illustration in the book Through Deserts and Oases of Central Persia (1920).

  • Page 7

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Digital Collection:
Photographs taken by Lt. Col. Sir Percy Sykes to illustrate Chinese Turkestan, the Russian Pamirs and Osh April-November, 1915
Source Collection:
Photographs taken by Lt. Col. Sir Percy Sykes to illustrate Chinese Turkestan, the Russian Pamirs and Osh, 1915 April-November
Provenance:
The photograph album, Photographs taken by Lt. Col. Sir Percy Sykes to illustrate Chinese Turkestan, the Russian Pamirs and Osh, April-November, 1915 was received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library as a purchase in 2018.
Rights:
Free Re-Use
No Copyright - United States
Identifier:
  • image RL.11685-P-0013
  • fb6a94adde122555010a7c8d33961a87
  • sykespercy
  • duke:606683
  • spsst001013
  • ark:/87924/r42z16g2f
  • 4c81660c-28ef-4727-846b-5610ed6ee92e
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