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  • Ishik ( Woman's fur coat ).  Early 19th century.  Swan's down covered with silk and velvet.  Fringed silk shawl.  The coat belonged to the sister of Chokan Valikanov (Shoqan Ualikanov), the explorer travler and scholar who was a grandson of the last khan of the Middle Horde.  Central State Museum. Almaty
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  • Kazakh cadets from Baurjan Momysh-Uly military school attend a memorial ceremony at Panfilov Heroes Park in central Almaty.  The Glory Memorial with its eternal flame commemorates, among other heroes, 28 Kazakh soldiers who repulsed 50 Nazi tanks on the outskirts of Moscow in 1941 during The Great Patriotic War, as World War II is known.
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  • The Yurt is a unique structure, a physical and metaphorical expression of Kazakh nomadic life.  It is an oasis of life and color, a nuturing place of safety where family and friends come together.  It is ironic that the Yurt - a small, self-contained structure in the vastness of the steppes - has within it a generous spaciousness.  The Yurt is where art, life and nature merge.  The art style is marked by ornamental improvisation and reflects the passionate, open and joyful Kazakh personality.  The use of natural materials ordered by the human hand creates a harmony of colors and shapes much like a flower arrangement.  To live inside a Yurt is to live inside art.  Central State Museum, Almaty, Kazakhstan
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  • Tuime (button).  19th century. Silver, gilt, grain. stamping and embossing.  Western Kazakhstan.  Central State Museum, Almaty
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  • Bilezik (braclet).  19th century.  Silver, Cornelian, Gilt, Grain, Stamping and Embossing.   Western Kazakhstan.  Central State Museum, Almaty
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  • Sensen Ton (man's fur coat).  Early 20th century.  Sheepskin coat lined with fur, colored with pomegranate aril.  Mangyshlak, western Kazakhstan.  Central State Museum, Almaty
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  • Zhargak Ton (Man's fur coat).  19th Century, chomois, silk-stitch embroidery.  Zhambyl region, southern Kazakhstan.  Central State Museum, Almaty
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  • Apparel and hats are a distinctive part of the national costume that indicate the age, gender and status of the wearer.  These hats come from the various clans and tribes of the three Kazakh hordes, dating to antiquity.  This collection is a good example of how each of the groups express rich and unique characteristics of the Kazakh personality.  Central State Museum, Almaty, Kazakhstan.
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  • From left, Zhargak Shalbar (man's trousers), 1886.  Chomois, Silk-stitch embroidery, Zhaumen district, southern Kazakhstan: Kemer Belkik (man's belt).  Early 20th century.  Leather, silver plate: Etik (man's boots).  Early 20th century.  Chois, handmade.  Taldykorgan region, eastern Kazakhstan.  Central State Museum, Almaty
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  • Granite water basin at the Yoshikawa inn in central Kyoto.
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  • Kazakh horsemen have earned a reputation as skilled and powerful riders that stretches back generations and millennia.  Children start riding when they are around three years old.  In this Bayge contest, young men race each other over rugged terrain for a preset distance. Furious, wild, exuberant and fearless - these are the characteristics of Kazakh horsemanship.
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  • A tree by an isolated mountain stream is covered by prayer cloths.  They represent the Kazakh belief that the tree of life connects mother earth and the great spirit.  People always choose trees near water - especially moving water - and often in the mountains, for this ritual.  Both factors are believed to bring the prayers nearer to god.
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  • A young dancer takes a break at a traditional performance in Panfilov Park near downtown Almaty.
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  • Besikke Salu, or "Putting in the cradle," is a ceremony for blessing a new baby.  This entails placing the infant in its cradle and , to ensure blessings, putting a small mirror or brush under the pillow for a baby girl or a whip and knife for a boy.  A burning sprig of sage or a flame, as picutred here, is passed over the cradle as a symbol of cleansing, life and protection.  a grandmother then pinches the baby's nose to make it cry, which assures a calm, deep sleep afterwards.  Arailym Sametova is the baby being blessed here. Her mother, Gulmarzhan Ikhanova, is at left, and the godmother, Galiya Usenbaeva, is the young woman behind the cradle.
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  • Raushan Auezova, the bride, and her attendants Madina and Shynar begin the "unveiling of the bride," the part of the wedding called the Betashar, at a traditional Kazakh marriage ceremony.
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  • Eternal Flame commemorating Kazakh soliders who gave their lives deafting the Nazis during the Great War, Panfilov Park, Almaty, Kazakhstan
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  • Honoring ancestors is an important practice in traditional Kazakh faiths.  This sacrifice of a sheep at the "Tree of Life" was part of the ritual to mark the passing of Zhangir Umbetov's father.  Afterwards, a portion of the meat of the sheep is given to each guest.  The ritual is about the affirmation of life not loss, and the acknowledgment that one's spirit lives on.
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  • Zaure Imankulova is known as "The people's healer" in the village of Pokrovka.  When she was a young girl in Qizilorda, rabbi Levi Schneerslon taught her.  During her univeristy studies she became a leadr in the students' communist party and began to espouse atheism.  Years later while working in a clinic, she discovered she had healing powers beyond conventional medical practices and was able to heal a number of patients.  A few months later in a dream, a holy man from the 17th century told her that she must use this special gift to heal people.  She moved to Pokrovka and followed that admonition.
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  • "Prayer cloths on the memorial in Narynkol near the sacred mountain Khan-Tengri venerate Raiymebek, a Kazakh warrior who fought the Dzungars (Mongols) in the 1700s.  His name became  a battle cry for his tribe, the Alban.  We came upon this memorial on the day before we were to return to the United States after finishing our last shoot, fittingly, at the summit of Khan-Tengri.  I had carried a prayer cloth with me during the yer we photographed in Kazakhstan and still had it wih me.  I tied my prayer cloth to the memorial; and as my wife, Patti, and I drove away, a double-rainbow formed over the Steppes, a fitting marker after a remarkable year of discovery."
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  • Svyato-Voznesensky cathedral is commonly called Zendkov cathedral after it builder, Andre Zenkov.  The Russian Orthodox edifice is in Almaty's Panfilov park.  Its construction, begun in 1904, is entirely of wood without the use of nails.  It was used as a natural history museum during the Soviet Era.  At 56 meters ( 184 feet)  its one of the tallest wooden buildings in the world.  It survived the earthquake of 1911 that devastated Almaty.
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  • These scenes in Zenkov Cathedral reflect the fact that faiths of all peoples are once again free to be practiced and are drawing people back to islam, christianity, judaism, shamanism, sufism, tengrism and zoroastrianism throughout the country.
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  • These scenes in Zenkov Cathedral reflect the fact that faiths of all peoples are once again free to be practiced and are drawing people back to islam, christianity, judaism, shamanism, sufism, tengrism and zoroastrianism throughout the country.
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  • Kokpar is a dramatic game in which two groups of 15-20 riders each struggle to keep possession of a two-year-old headless goat.  The winning team is awarded a feast of the goat.  It is also known as Buzkashi, anda a variation is to try to propel the goat carcass from the place of the competition to one's own home.  The game is played on special occassions like this festival in the village of Zhidebai, and is another contest  that was traditionally intended to strengthen a warrior's skills.
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  • Abdulkhak Turlybayev is known as 'The Eagle Man' because of his mastery of these magnificent creatures.  Kazakhs call men like Mr. Turlybayev 'Qusbegi,' or 'Lord of the Birds.'  Watching him work with his eagle quickly made me understand that what he has and feels transcends 'skill' - it rises to 'relationship.'  Kazakhs revere the golden eagle in part because they fly so high and close to the sun.  Pilots have reported seein them as high as 20,000 feet.
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  • Kazakh grandmother ties a cord around the ankles of the toddler marking the first step  Shieli, Kazakhstan
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  • Besikke Salu, or "Putting in the Cradle," is a ceremony for blessing a new baby.  This entails placing the infant in its cradle and, to ensure blessings, putting a small mirror or brush under the pillow for a baby girl or a whip and knife for a boy.  A burning sprig of sage or a flame, as pictured here, is passed over the cradle as a symbol of cleansing, life and protection.  A grandmother then pinches the baby's nose to make it cry, which assures a calm, deep sleep afterwards.  Arailym Sametova is the baby being blessed here.  Her mother, Gulmarzhan Ikhanova, is at left, and the Godmother, Galiya Usenbaeva, is the young woman behind the cradle.
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  • These reproductions of battle-axes dating from the 16th to the 17th centuries are examples of the authenticism achieved in the medieval weapons crated by the Koulmanov brothers.
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  • Raigul Akhmetzhanova learned traditional  Chi making (reeds wrapped with wool) from elderly Kazakh women.  She uses the age-old technique to express her modern art.
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  • Zakiya Akai-Kyzy is a practicing atytorney besides being a master embroiderer and Chi artist.  Her work is a good example of cross-cultural influences due to the time she spent in Mongolia.  Here she works on a Tuskiiz using a chain stitch called "The Trace of the Mouse."  A Tuskiiz is a wall-hanging that can also be used as a decorative covering.
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  • A handmade carpet of dyed wool takes shape on a horizontal loom  through the artistry of Bibit Ikhanova, left, and Zhanilya Bektasova in the village of Shieli.
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  • A first-rate Aytis, a performance competition between singers/poets known as Aqins, contains the essence of theater-the element of agame, the circle of experience, knowledgeable spectators and the highest level of mastery by the performers.  The Aytis underway here is the annual competion in Almaty held at the Palace of the Republice
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  • At 6:00 a.m. in the village of Shieli, tea is prepared in Samavars whil round balls of leavened dough called Bauirsaqs are deep-fried a golden brown.
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  • Kapat Sai, or Chalk Canyon, in the Manghstau region on the Caspian Sea is a rich archeological site for flint tools.
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  • Camel Herder on a Steppe horse, Kazakhstan
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  • Train transporting gas from the Tengiz Refinery in Kazakhstan.
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  • Safety firedrill at the Tengiz refinery in Kazakhstan.
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  • Oil field roughnecks working an onshore rig at Tengiz, Kazakhstan.
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  • "Prayer cloths on the memorial in Narynkol near the sacred mountain Khan-Tengri venerate Raiymebek, a Kazakh warrior who fought the Dzungars (Mongols) in the 1700s.  His name became  a battle cry for his tribe, the Alban.  We came upon this memorial on the day before we were to return to the United States after finishing our last shoot, fittingly, at the summit of Khan-Tengri.  I had carried a prayer cloth with me during the yer we photographed in Kazakhstan and still had it wih me.  I tied my prayer cloth to the memorial; and as my wife, Patti, and I drove away, a double-rainbow formed over the Steppes, a fitting marker after a remarkable year of discovery."
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  • The bride,  Raushan Auezova, pours fat onto the fire in the village of Shieli in the Qizilorda region.  It is considered an act of cleansing as well as an offering to ancestors, and it marks the beginning of the marriage ceremony.
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  • During the ceremony, musicians begin to play traditional instruments while they recite the bride's lineage.  She bows each time the singer calls out the name of an ancestor. Shieli, Kazakhstan.
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  • Nursulu Aytanova with young Beknur and Amangeldy who are guests at the wedding in Shieli.
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  • A young couple in modern versions of traditional wedding attire prepare for their marriage ceremony.  A brides's dress is often considered the zenith of the dressmaker's art.  her headdress is called a Saukele, and its design and ornamentation are laden with many levels of meaning and symbolism.
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  • The ram's skull and horns at the Sultan Ake mosque signify a d desire for the deceased to be as close to the great spirit as the sheep and goats that climb hin in the mountains.
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  • Relatives recite muslim prayers during a ritual honoring the 25th anniversary of the passing of Zhangir Umbetov's father in the countryside near the village of Pokrovka in southeastern Kazakhstan.
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  • Mountain sheep are revered because they can climb to heights where the air and water are pure and they are close to the great spirit.  Statues of they are used on tombs in "cities of ancestors" like this one in Koshkurt-Ata near Aktau as symbols of this relationship with god.
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  • "The afternoon we spent photographing the temple at Shakbak-Ata, we were privileged to watch a wonderful ritual unfold.  In the valley just below us , craftsmen were completing a lovely new mausoleum.  As they laid the final piece of gleaming white marble in place, a bus pulled up.  This in intself was surprise because the drive to this site was over an extremely rough and rocky track.  Out of the bus poured relatives: men, women and children, here to examine, approve, admire and videotape the new memorial .  After they were satisfied with their inspection, they set up a spot to cook dinner to celebrate the completion of the mausoleum."
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  • Muslim women pray at the Auezov jubilee celebrations at Borli-Aul in eastern Kazakhstan.
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  • A young girl watches the end of a wedding ceremony while waiting for her baptism to begin in Zenkov cathedral, Almaty Kazakhstan.
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  • Tenge-Alu, or "Picking up Coins," is a game in which a handkerchief is filled with money and placed on the ground.  A skilled rider gallops at breakneck speed, leans down and tries to snatch up the prize. Shieli
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  • Abdulkhak Turlybayev is known as 'The Eagle Man' because of his mastery of these magnificent creatures.  Kazakhs call men like Mr. Turlybayev 'Qusbegi,' or 'Lord of the Birds.'  Watching him work with his eagle quickly made me understand that what he has and feels transcends 'skill' - it rises to 'relationship.'  Kazakhs revere the golden eagle in part because they fly so high and close to the sun.  Pilots have reported seein them as high as 20,000 feet.
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  • The Koulmanov brothers - Toursounjan, Machmoud and Aytbergen - are master metalsmiths and historians.  After meticulous research, they use original methods and materials to recreate period weapons, saddles and standards at their workshop in Almaty.  Their attention to detail extends to their forging the metal they use in their craft.
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  • The objects in this tableau in the almaty studio of artists Amangul Iknanova and Zhangir Umbetov are examples of traditional Kazakh life:  hanging on the wall are, from left, a tomtemic wolf hide: a leather Kese Kap, which is used to store cups and bowls and is tied to the saddle: a horse tail: a fox hide; a small, decorative felt storage bag, and two Dombiras, also called Dombras, the traditional musical insturment.  Standing on the table are, from left, three Torsiqs, which are flasks to hold Kumiss, the fermented mare's milk drink: a leather belt with siver and turquoise decoration: a brass mortar and pestle; a Kumiss cup, pitchers for oil: and imported Russian Samovar for tea.  A Tuskeez hangs on the wall
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  • This coral Tuskiiz was made by Mariya Ilakova in 1913.  Its intricate design includes velvet, silk, coral, turquoise, cornelian, agate and embroididery.  It includes pieces of wedding jewelry that were sown into the textile after the marriage ceremony.  A Tuskiiz was made by the bride before the wedding and hung in an honorary place so the groom's relatives could appaise her skill.  Tuskiiz are used as wall decorations and to cover stacked futons.  Kasteyev museum of fine arts, Almaty
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  • The Almaty studio of Artists Amangul Ikhanova and Zhangir Umbetov reflects the profusion of activities and media they work in: weaving, painting, sculpting and jewelry making.  The studio also recreates a microcosm of Kazakh culture, with the musical Dombra instruments and the sacred wolf hide hanging on the wall and the Dastarqan laid out with food.  This husband-and-wife team have created a unique Kazakh art form, called Kushkon, in which they dye leather and create a work that is both suclpture and painting.  The concepts for most of their kpieces are drawn from Tengrism, Shamanism, Sufism and Soroastrianism.  They are both from the Qizilorda region of Kazakhstan
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  • Dyed wool is wrapped around reeds, then stitched together to make Chi mats to adorn the exterior  walls of the Yurt. This one was created by Zakiya Akai-Kyzy.
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  • This fine felt rug is a good example of a 20th century Tekemet, as they are called in Kazakh.  It was made in southern Kazakhstan by Bibi Romanova, Kasteyev Museum of Fine Arts, Almaty, Kazakhstan.
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  • Fatima Adai demonstrates her strap-weaving technique at her home in Aktau.  Her family moved to Iran after the 1917 october revolution and she learned weaving there.  Returning to Kazakhstan in 1997, she merged her Persian technique with her Kazakh design to create a beautiful, new hybrid style.
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  • Nurzipha Zhangaziyeva weaves a modern-style carpet, based on ancient Kazakh petroglyphs, on a vertical loom at the Tamga carpet factory in Fabrichny in southeastern Kazakhstan.
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  • A fourth-generation silversmith, Bozgigitov Bakit, painstakingly restores a pectoral ornament for the local museum in his studio at Aktau in the Manghstau region of southerwestern Kazakhstan.
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  • Modern methods dominate agriculture, but beautiful rural scenes like this family gathering hay near Petropavl can still be seen.
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  • Kazakh mothers and toddler's first step ritual, Kazakhstan
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  • Altibaqan, nomadic style swing.
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  • Helianthus blossom, Kazakhstan
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  • Kazakh tombs are often built in the shope of a Yurt in an open style-essentially "spirit yurts," near this in Katon-Karagai, there was a poem written by the children of Kakitai Kabodol Uly, Born October 5, 1931, passed on, August 3, 1997:  "Dearest  father, with young mind and blooming soul cruel life is singing about you its sad song.  Your children are full of thoughts about you, and miss you.  And there is no way that smiles can be returned.  What a pity that destiny is showing  its black side.  There is nobody whom I can complain to about it.  You, my father, are protecting with your spirit us, your children, the continuatioon of your life."
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  • Spirit yurts, like this one at Koshkurt-Ata, take on a wide range of forms and incorporate poetry, sculpture and painting to illuminate the lives of those who have passed on.  These "cities of the ancestors" are in large measure the architectural heritage of the Kazakh nomads.  A story recorded by the historian Herodotus perhaps best illustrates their power and meaning to the Kazkahs, in 513 B.C., Darius I, king of Persia, attacked the Scythians in what is now Kazakhstan.  They continued to pull back, setting the Steppes afire as they went.  Frustrated, Darius sent a messengter to the Scythians to ask why they would not stand and fight.  Idanthyrsus, their ruler, responded with this threat: "I have never fled from a man in fear in days past or now...we have neither cities nor sown land for which we might fear...but if you needs must come to a fight with us quickly, there are our father's graves.  Find them and try to ruin them, and you will discover whether we will fight you or not."
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  • Parishoners bring cakes and decorated eggs to be blessed at Russian Orthodox Easter services.
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  • Abdulkhak Turlybayev is known as 'The Eagle Man' because of his mastery of these magnificent creatures.  Kazakhs call men like Mr. Turlybayev 'Qusbegi,' or 'Lord of the Birds.'  Watching him work with his eagle quickly made me understand that what he has and feels transcends 'skill' - it rises to 'relationship.'  Kazakhs revere the golden eagle in part because they fly so high and close to the sun.  Pilots have reported seein them as high as 20,000 feet.
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  • Qiz Quu, or 'chasing the girl,' is another well-loved horseback game in Kazakhstan.  If the boy wins the race, he gets to kiss the girl on the ride back to the starting line.  if the girl wins, she gets to "whip" the boy on the ride back.  This game took place in the village of Zhibebai.
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  • A student works on creating the design on a musical intrument called a Qil Qobiz at the applied arts department at Almaty university.  The Qobiz is one of the world's oldest intruments and is considered to be the ancestor of European bowed instruments, including the violin.
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  • Master felt-makers Zeken Zarykpai-Kyzy Sygayeva and Kaineke Zarykpai-Kyzy Kanapyanova, Abai village, Kazakhstan
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  • Detail of a felt rug
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  • Clan Matriarchs in Shieli (left to right) Darkhan Sadenova, Shadan Tonbetova, Manap Mykhanova and Uljan Sametobva gather to join in the joyous rituals of presenting the baby in the cradle and cutting the cord.
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  • Today one can see striking images of Church and State in tolerance of each other.  One example is the sharing of important events like this commemorative ceremony for fallen world war II warriors at the Glory Memorial in Panfilov Park, Almaty, Kazakhstan.
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  • Zholaoushy Turdugulov is a master intrument maker who is also the Grand-Prize Winner in performance with the Dombira, or Dombra, as it is also called.  Here he checks the sound board of a new one he is making out of traditional apple wood in his workshop at the department of applied arts of Almaty University where he is a professor.  Aitmukhambet Tezhekenov, a musica
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  • Zhangir Umbetov works in various artistic media.  He has created this ceremonial hat for a young lady, using owl feathers as a plume for theri sacred power.
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  • Village ladies work together to make fine felt in Shieli in the Qizilorda regiion, Kazakhstan
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  • Master felt-makers Zeken Zarykpai-Kyzy Sygayeva and Kaineke Zarykpai-Kyzy Kanapyanova, Abai village, Kazakhstan
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  • Master felt-makers Zeken Zarykpai-Kyzy Sygayeva and Kaineke Zarykpai-Kyzy Kanapyanova, Abai village, Kazakhstan
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  • This detail is from a pile carpet called Toktyklem.  It is a 20th century creation from Shymkent in Southern Kazakhstan.  Kasteyev museum of fine arts, Almaty, Kazakhstan.
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  • Zhuzik ring with bird beak design
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  • A first-rate Aytis, a performance competition between singers/poets known as Aqins, contains the essence of theater-the element of agame, the circle of experience, knowledgeable spectators and the highest level of mastery by the performers.  The Aytis underway here is the annual competion in Almaty held at the Palace of the Republice
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  • An elderly vendor carries her pail  full of Aport apples through a birch grove to sell by a roadside.  Aports come from orchards the Talgar district outside Almaty where trees that carry the genes of the first apples are still cultuvated.
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  • Kazakh language student, Arkhimed high school, Almaty, Kazakhstan
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  • Graduate student Dana Makhatova doing research at the National Library, Almaty, Kazahstan
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  • Silk and velvet Yurt roof strap
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  • Zhumabai Mukhanov demonstrates traditional sheep shearing to Nursaltan Zhumabaev and Farida Sametova in the village of Shieli in Qiqiliorda.  The shears, called Kyryktyk, are the same as those used in other nomadic cultures.
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  • A Kazakh yurt in an apple orchard in southeastern Kazakhstan.
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  • The first step in assembling a yurt is to attach the lattice wall sections to the door frame as villagers are doing here in Shieli in  the Qizilorda region.  The door of a yurt always looks to the east so that the sun is the first visitor to the nomad's home.
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  • A Shaban, or shepherd, guides his flock through a mountain pass in Butakovka in the Zailiisky Alatau Mountains in Southern Kazakhstan
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  • These female Bactrian camels can weigh 450 to 650 kilograms (1,450 Lb) and stand 190 to 230 centimeters (75 to 91 inches) tall at the hump. Bakanas, southern Kazakhstan
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  • This rare Balaban Falcon came to the attention of a wealthy Arab Falconer who offered Mr. Turlybayev, the "Eagle Man" $100,000 (about 750,000 Tenge) for it.  He turned the offer down, saying the Falcon belonged in Kazakhstan it home.
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  • The Akhal-Teke horse is believed to be the oldest purebred horse extant.  This legendary horse has been prized for centuries for its unparalleled stamina, speed, courage and beauty.  In 1935 Akhal-Tekes proved their extraordinary endurance in the famous 4,300 kilometer (2,700 mile) trek from Askqabat to Moscow, completed in 84 days, during this march they traveled 360 kilometers (225 miles) across the kara-kum desert in 3 days, virtually without water.  this spectacular demonstration convinced authorities to protect the purity of the breed.  In the 4th century B.C. Alexander the Great was stopped by Massagetae warriors mounted on Akhal-Tekes, and in the 2nd Century B.C. a Chinese emperor traded silk for these "Horses of Heavan."  Here horsemen tend to their herd in the Lugovoi district of the Zhambyl Region. Kazakhstan
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  • The black horse at the fron tof this herd in the Lugovoi district is Maydonle, the grand-daughter of Absent, the most successful horse in Olympic history.  Absent won a gold medal, a silver medal and two bronze medals in dressage at three separate olympic games in the 1960s.  Maydonle stood apart from the herd and signaled the others with a variety of sounds.  When it was time to cross the stream, she neighed and let them down the hill.
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  • Silk and velvet Yurt roof strap
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  • Zailiisky Alatau, Suh-Konyer, Kazakhstan
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  • Glaciers in the Tien Shan mountains, Kazakhstan
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  • Ethnic Uyghur at the  Mukhtar Auezov festival in Almaty, Kazakhstan
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  • The Altai Range that runs along Kazakhstan's northeastern border is noted for its rivers, waterfalls, springs and spectacular vistas. Mount Belukha, often shrouded in clouds, has its own persona that is steeped in history and religion.  It has witnessed Chingis Khan invading with 200,000 Mongols; and listened as the chants, songs and laments of shammans echoed off its sheer cliffs. Kazakhstan
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  • Deep gorge of Charyn Canyon runs for miles near the southern border with China.
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