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  • At Mada'in Saleh, wealthy Nabataens were buried in splendor in tombs carved in rock and long since robbed of valuables. The archeological site of Al-Hijr (Madain Saleh) is the first UNESCO World Heritage Site in Saudi Arabia.  It was a major center of the Nabataen civilization.  It is the largest Nabataen site south of Petra in Jordan.  It bears testimony to the Nabataen civilization between the 2nd and 3rd centuries BC and pre-Islamic period in the 1st century AD.
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  • Rip Mann, Woodcarver, Heritage Mountain Fair, Hiawassee, Georgia
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  • Saiho-ji ("Koke-dere") is a Rinzai Zen Buddhist temple located in Matsuo, Nishikyo ward.  It is know as the moss garden with 120 varieties of moss. At the center is the Golden Pond, shaped like the Chinese character for "heart" or "mind".  A UNESCO World Heritage Site and "Historic Monument of Ancient Kyoto". Kyoto, Japan
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  • Al-Diriyah (Arabic: ??????? ) allso spelled Ad-Dariyah or Dir'aiyah. Town on outskirts of Riyadh original home of Saudi royal fvaily.  Served as first Saudi dynasty from 1744 to 1818.  the Turaif district in Diriyah was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2010.  City was founded in 1446-7 by Mani Al-Mraydi. Saudi Arabia
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  • Saiho-ji ("Koke-dere") is a Rinzai Zen Buddhist temple located in Matsuo, Nishikyo ward.  It is know as the moss garden with 120 varieties of moss. At the center is the Golden Pond, shaped like the Chinese character for "heart" or "mind".  A UNESCO World Heritage Site and "Historic Monument of Ancient Kyoto". Kyoto, Japan
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  • Al-Diriyah (Arabic: ??????? ) allso spelled Ad-Dariyah or Dir'aiyah. Town on outskirts of Riyadh original home of Saudi royal fvaily.  Served as first Saudi dynasty from 1744 to 1818.  the Turaif district in Diriyah was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2010.  City was founded in 1446-7 by Mani Al-Mraydi. Saudi Arabia
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  • Al-Diriyah (Arabic: ??????? ) allso spelled Ad-Dariyah or Dir'aiyah. Town on outskirts of Riyadh original home of Saudi royal fvaily.  Served as first Saudi dynasty from 1744 to 1818.  the Turaif district in Diriyah was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2010.  City was founded in 1446-7 by Mani Al-Mraydi. Saudi Arabia
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  • Rip Mann, Woodcarver, Heritage Mountain Fair, Hiawassee, Georgia
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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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  • At Mada'in Saleh, wealthy Nabataens were buried in splendor in tomb carved in rock and long since robbed of valuables.               The archeological site of Al-Hijr (Madain Saleh) is the first UNESCO World Heritage Site in  Saudi Arabia.  It is a major center of the Nabataen civilization.  It is the largest Nabataen site south of Petra in Jordan.  It bears testimony to teh Nabataen civiliztkion between the 2nd and 3rd centuries BC and pre-Islamic period in the 1st century AD.
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  • Sunset behind a mature oak tree on the grounds of the Toji ?? temple, "East Temple. UNESCO world heritage site.  Toji is the one of the most important Shingon temples. Kyoto, Japan
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  • At Mada'in Saleh, wealthy Nabataens were buried in splendor in tomb carved in rock and long since robbed of valuables.               The archeological site of Al-Hijr (Madain Saleh) is the first UNESCO World Heritage Site in  Saudi Arabia.  It is a major center of the Nabataen civilization.  It is the largest Nabataen site south of Petra in Jordan.  It bears testimony to teh Nabataen civiliztkion between the 2nd and 3rd centuries BC and pre-Islamic period in the 1st century AD.
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  • The entrance to a sacred area within the complex at Al-Hijr.  The archeological site of Al-Hijr (Madain Saleh) is the first UNESCO World Heritage Site in Saudi Arabia.  It was a major center of the Nabataen civilization.  It is the largest Nabataen site south of Petra in Jordan.  It bears testimony to the Nabataen civilization between the 2nd and 3rd centuries BC and pre-Islamic period in the 1st century AD.
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  • School children visiting the Ryoanji Zen Temple (The Temple of the Dragon at Peace). Belongs to the Myoshin-ji school of the Rinzai branch of Zen Buddhism.  It is regarded as one of the finest examples of a kare-sansui, a Japanese rock garden, or zen garden.  The temple and garden are listed as Historic Monuments of ancient Kyoto, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Kyoto, Japan
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  • Isolated tomb at Mada'in Saleh, wealthy Nabataens were buried in splendor in tomb carved in rock and long since robbed of valuables.               The archeological site of Al-Hijr (Madain Saleh) is the first UNESCO World Heritage Site in  Saudi Arabia.  It is a major center of the Nabataen civilization.  It is the largest Nabataen site south of Petra in Jordan.  It bears testimony to teh Nabataen civiliztkion between the 2nd and 3rd centuries BC and pre-Islamic period in the 1st century AD.
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  • The entrance to a sacred area within the complex at Al-Hijir.  The archeological site of Al-Hijr (Madain Saleh) is the first UNESCO World Heritage Site in  Saudi Arabia.  It is a major center of the Nabataen civilization.  It is the largest Nabataen site south of Petra in Jordan.  It bears testimony to teh Nabataen civiliztkion between the 2nd and 3rd centuries BC and pre-Islamic period in the 1st century AD.
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  • Light from oil rig flare backlights a Bedouin tent in southern Arabia.
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  • Light from oil rig flare backlights a Bedouin tent in southern Arabia.
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  • Florida Cancer Specialist & Research Institute, Cape Coral Cancer Center, Florida
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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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  • 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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  • This handsome, modern mosque in Almaty was given to the people of Kazakhstan by Egypt and its President, Hosni Mubarrak.  The Egyptians also are helping plan an islamic university complex around the mosque.
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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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  • 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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  • Sheikh Jaber Alamrah keeping an eye on his herd of camels in the Dahana Sands, Saudi Arabia
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  • Sheikh Jaber Alamrah with one of his white camels in Hafar Al-Batin, Saudi Arabia
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  • Florida Cancer Specialist & Research Institute, Cape Coral Cancer Center, Florida
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  • Florida Cancer Specialist & Research Institute, Cape Coral Cancer Center, Florida
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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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  • "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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Muslim women pray at the Auezov jubilee celebrations at Borli-Aul in eastern Kazakhstan.
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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 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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  • 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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  • Layla Eastep visitng Sheikh Jaber Alamrah at his camp in Hafar Al-Batin, Saudi Arabia
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  • Sheikh Nasser bin Saleh Alerq of Al-Murrah tribe, Saudi Arabia
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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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  • Altibaqan, nomadic style swing.
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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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  • This sacred sit overlooks lake Burabay in northern Kazakhstan. Oqzhetpes, the stark rock formation in the background, means, 'the arrow cannot reach this place'.  The legend as told to us relates that when Abilay Khan was fighting the Oyrats, his army camped below this rocky hill.  The troops captured a beautiful princess and the Khan decreed that she would marry a Kazakh.  She agreed to accept the man who could shoot an arrow to the top of the hill.  All men failed on the first attempt.  On the second try, her true love's arrow reached the top.  Ther others were so engraged that they killed him.  the anquished princess threw herself into lake Burabay where she turned in the sphinx-like rock formation that protrudes from the water to this day.
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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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  • Zhargak Ton (Man's fur coat).  19th Century, chomois, silk-stitch embroidery.  Zhambyl region, southern Kazakhstan.  Central State Museum, Almaty
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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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  • 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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  • Master felt-makers Zeken Zarykpai-Kyzy Sygayeva and Kaineke Zarykpai-Kyzy Kanapyanova, Abai village, 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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  • 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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  • Modern methods dominate agriculture, but beautiful rural scenes like this family gathering hay near Petropavl can still be seen.
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  • Sheikh Jaber Alamrah keeping an eye on his herd of camels in the Dahana Sands, Saudi Arabia
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  • Florida Cancer Specialist & Research Institute, Cape Coral Cancer Center, Florida
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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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  • 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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  • This handsome, modern mosque in Almaty was given to the people of Kazakhstan by Egypt and its President, Hosni Mubarrak.  The Egyptians also are helping plan an islamic university complex around the mosque.
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  • Parishoners bring cakes and decorated eggs to be blessed at Russian Orthodox Easter services.
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Detail of a felt rug
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