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Tipy narodnostei turkestanskago kraia. Uzbeki. aba-bii byvshii shakhrisiabzskii bek v g. Shakhrie – Antique Print

Tipy narodnostei turkestanskago kraia. Uzbeki. aba-bii byvshii shakhrisiabzskii bek v g. Shakhrie, [between 1865 and 1872] — historic photograph
Tipy narodnostei turkestanskago kraia. Uzbeki. aba-bii byvshii shakhrisiabzskii bek v g. Shakhrie, [between 1865 and 1872]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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The title names the subject as Aba-bii, a former bek, or local governor, of Shakhrisabz, a city south of Samarkand that was the birthplace of Timur and a major center of the Timurid world. The photograph was made for the *Turkestanskii al'bom*, an album of portraits and views assembled by the Russian administration after its conquest of Central Asia, and its ethnographic section sorted the region's peoples into "types." Read today, the portrait is as much a record of how colonial officials classified and displayed local men as it is of the sitter himself, which makes its formal posing and its caption worth looking at closely.

Created / published[between 1865 and 1872]
Medium1 photographic print : albumen.
GenreAlbumen prints 1860-1880.
NotesIllus. in: Turkestanskii al'bom, chast' étnograficheskaia: ..., 1871-1872, part 2, vol. 1, p. 9. Title from item.
SubjectsUzbeks--Men--1860-1880. Government officials--Uzbekistan--Shahrisabz--1860-1880.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,224 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-154747

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