The mêlée – The Game of baghi, or "Hunt the Goat"

Item Info

Title:
The mêlée – The Game of baghi, or "Hunt the Goat"
Date:
April 1915 to November 1915
Creator:
Sykes, Percy, Sir, 1867-1945
Description:

  • Men on horseback playing a ritual game of picking up a stuffed goatskin from the ground. Appears as an illustration in the book Through Deserts and Oases of Central Persia (1920).

  • Page 21

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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-0041
  • 22383a873d03755b8493e2f92d71dcd5
  • sykespercy
  • duke:606697
  • spsst001041
  • ark:/87924/r44m95367
  • dc3a2e58-a42b-4bec-8d29-16b6b9e861e9
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