ON CENTRAL ASIAN TRACKS - PHOTOS

On Central Asian Tracks 22 - Pakhpo Hillmen anthropometrically examined at Kok-yar -Stein exerted extra effort to get these reluctant hill people to come out of their mountains to be photographed. He was determined to find out if the same ethnic group (he called Alpine) who lived in the Pamirs (today's Uzbekistan and Tajikistan) also had migrated in ancient times so far east.