Peoples of the Silk Road | Arts & Social Sciences - UNSW Sydney

A Chinese worshipper lighting joss sticks at the Giant Wild Goose Pagoda in Xi’an, China

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A Chinese worshipper lighting joss sticks at the Giant Wild Goose Pagoda in Xi’an, China

Hui pastry vendor, Xi’an, China.

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Hui pastry vendor, Xi’an, China.

Hui Children, Linxia, Gansu, China.

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Hui Children, Linxia, Gansu, China.

Labrang Tibetan Monastery, Gansu, China.

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Labrang Tibetan Monastery, Gansu, China.

Kazakh man sitting in front of his summer mountain cabin, Qomul, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China.

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Kazakh man sitting in front of his summer mountain cabin, Qomul, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China.

Uyghur women in traditional clothes getting ready for Nawruz celebration. Qomul, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China.

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Uyghur women in traditional clothes getting ready for Nawruz celebration. Qomul, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China.

Uyghur folk musicians getting ready for Nawruz celebration. Qomul, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China.

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Uyghur folk musicians getting ready for Nawruz celebration. Qomul, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China.

Uyghur folk musician, Qomul, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China.

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Uyghur girls attending Nawruz celebration, Qomul, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China.

Uyghur girls attending Nawruz celebration

Uyghur school boys in festive clothes, Qomul, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China.

Uyghur school boys

Young Kyrgyz riders getting ready for the annual horse game ulak tartish. Atush, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China.

Young Kyrgyz riders

Young Kyrgyz riders. Atush, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China.

Young Kyrgyz riders

Young Kyrgyz riders getting ready for the horse games. Atush, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China.

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Kyrgyz elders at the annual horse games. Atush, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China.

Kyrgyz elders at the annual horse games

Kyrgyz children learning to play komuz, a traditional musical instrument.

Kyrgyz children learning to play komuz

A Kyrgyz baqshi – shaman, holding his kamsha, a whip, Atush, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China.

A Kyrgyz baqshi – shaman

Uyghur man, Kashgar, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China.

Uyghur man, Kashgar

Uyghur woman in front of a saint’s tomb/mazar, Kashgar, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China.

Uyghur woman in front of a saint’s tomb

Uyghur man, Kashgar, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China.

Uyghur man, Kashgar

Uyghur girl wearing a dopa, Uyghur traditional hat, and eyebrows painted with osma, a herb said to help shape and thicken the eyebrows. Kashgar, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China.

Uyghur girl wearing a dopa

Uyghur woman, Kashgar, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China.

Uyghur woman, Kashgar

Uyghur man, Kashgar, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China.

Uyghur man, Kashgar, Xinjiang

Uyghur woman at a Sunday bazaar, Kashgar, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China

Uyghur woman at a Sunday bazaar

Uyghur girl with osma-painted monobrow. Atush, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China.

Uyghur girl with osma-painted monobrow

Uyghur barber, Kashgar, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China.

Uyghur barber

Uyghur elderly ladies, Kashgar, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China.

Uyghur elderly ladies

Uyghur carpet seller, Kashgar, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China.

Uyghur carpet seller

Uyghur man making bronze kettles.

Uyghur man making bronze kettles

Uyghur boy, Kashgar Central Asian Market, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China.

Uyghur boy, Kashgar Central Asian Market

Uyghur boy band playing at a wedding, Kashgar, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China.

Uyghur boy band playing at a wedding

Uyghur garlic seller, Kashgar, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China.

Uyghur garlic seller

Uyghur school-girls in traditional ätläs dress. Kashgar, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China.

Uyghur school-girls in traditional ätläs dress

Uyghur high school teachers greet one another at a school ceremony, Kasghar, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China.

Uyghur high school teachers greet one another at a school ceremony

Uyghur dopa maker.

Uyghur dopa maker

Uyghur carpet-weavers, Kashgar

Uyghur carpet-weavers

Fig sellers, Kashgar.

Fig sellers, Kashgar

Uyghur ladies in mourning, Kashgar

Uyghur ladies in mourning

Coppersmiths, Kashgar

Coppersmiths Kashgar

Uyghur children carrying a nan. Kucha, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China.

Uyghur children carrying a nan

Proud Tajik girl shows off her many plaits, Tashqorghan, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China.

Proud Tajik girl shows off her many plaits

Tajik children, Tashqorghan, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China.

Tajik children, Tashqorghan

Tajik women, Tashqorghan, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China.

Tajik women, Tashqorghan

Young Kyrgyz riders, Toqmaq, Kyrgyzstan.

Young Kyrgyz riders, Toqmaq

Nomadic Kyrgyz family in Naryn, Kyrgyzstan.

Nomadic Kyrgyz family in Naryn

Gypsy woman blessing the passersby with sacred smoke, Samarkand, Uzbekistan.

Gypsy woman blessing the passersby with sacred smoke

Young Uzbek carpet weavers, Samarkand, Uzbekistan

Young Uzbek carpet weavers, Samarkand, Uzbekistan

Uzbek men playing chess, Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

Uzbek men playing chess, Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

Tajik/Uzbek girls, Bukhara, Uzbekistan.

Tajik/Uzbek girls, Bukhara, Uzbekistan.

Young Tajik Suzani seller, Bukhara, Uzbekistan.

Young Tajik Suzani seller, Bukhara, Uzbekistan

Ätläs - Central Asian silk ikat weaver, Samarkand, Uzbekistan.

Ätläs - Central Asian silk ikat weaver, Samarkand, Uzbekistan

Uzbek fig sellers, Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

Uzbek fig sellers, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

Young Uzbek woman in ätläs dress, Khiva, Uzbekistan.

Young Uzbek woman in ätläs dress, Khiva, Uzbekistan