Afghan Women in Kerzawahs, Khyber Pass

Afghan Women in Kerzawahs, Khyber Pass

c. 1908
Publisher No.: 
9317

[Original caption] A Kerzawah is a popular method of transport in the Indo-Afghan frontier, the camel being the usual beast of burden, and able to carry four persons in a load. According to the tenets of their religion, the native women are very jealous of strangers seeing their faces, and, unlessquite secure from observation, the kerzawah is kept draped with curtains. [end]

Postmarked Sussex January 27, 1911 and sent to Miss Lucy Alston, 19 Drayton [?] Avenue, Chelsea, London SW: "I have just been for a walk but it was not very nice. Much Love, H."