ABC 042 — Moghur
A winter camp of the Chahar Aimak tribe. On a slope seven felt-covered yurts of the Chahar Aimak style with pointed roofs are arranged. They are partly protected by low mud walls. At the left edge one man, in the centre four well-dressed children, in the background three women. There are two huge piles of firewood, but no other traditional heating material, made from dung, is visible.
Some children of the Chahar Aimaq in warm winter cloths, but with bare feet.
Enlarged detail of the yurt with pointed roof in the centre of the picture.
A winter camp of the Chahar Aimak tribe. On a slope seven felt-covered yurts of the Chahar Aimak style with pointed roofs are arranged. They are partly protected by low mud walls. At the left edge one man, in the centre four well-dressed children, in the background three women. There are two huge piles of firewood, but no other traditional heating material, made from dung, is visible.
[List:] 42. Group of Hazaras, Mogur near Kala Nao.
- The Graphic, Vol. 31 (1885/1), June 27, p. 650: “The Hazaras and Jamshedis are two of the ‘Chahar Aimakh’ tribes (the word means ‘four nomad’ tribes), the other two being the Fiorzkohis and the Temuris, whose habitat is not within the disputed area. The Jamsehdi is the most prepossessing in appearance, being of Persian descent, while the Hazara probably traces his ancestry to the Tatars. The latter is a light-hearted, harmless sort of fellow, but is regarded by the other tribes somewhat in the light that a Connaught man is regarded by other Irishmen, or a Gallego by other Spaniards.”
- [Parliamentary Blue Papers, May 1885]: Central Asia. No. 2 (1885), p. 33: Colonel Stewart writes to Colonel Sir O. Burne on 19th March 1884: “These two tribes of Afghanistan [Hazara and Jamshedi tribe] claim, as their lands, the upper course of the Murghab River, and whoever may have lived at Penjdeh during the last 100 years and more have paid their revenue to the Afghan Government either through the Chief of the Jamshedis residing at Kushk and Bala Murghab, or through the Hazara Chief residing at Kala Nau. […] In the neighbourhood of Bala Murghab are settled about 1000 families of the Jamsehdi, Hazara, and Feruz Kuhi tribes. Their cultivation extends down the course of the Murghab as far as the old fort Maruchak, I am told. These tribes are not of Turkoman race, but are members of the nomad tribes of the Herat district known as Charbar [sic!] Aimak.”
- Holdich, T.H. (1885): Afghan Boundary Commission; Geographical Notes, pp. 279-280: Maghur is mentioned.
- Adamec, L.W. (1975): Herat and north-western Afghanistan, pp. 300-301: Moghor or Muqur.
- Herberg, W.; Janata, A.: Die Firuzkuhi-Jurte des Museums für Völkerkunde in Wien, in: AFJ 9/4, pp. 95-103: detailed description and photographic step-by-step documentation of the construction of a yurt.
Image No.
ABC 042
Collection
Afghan Boundary Commission 1884-86
Series
ABC 1, Photographs 001 to 057
Format
Sepia print, 143/206 mm
Quality
good, margins faded, mouldy spots
Place, date
Moghor, November 23, 1884
Descriptors
Latitude / Longitude35.024760 / 63.283218
Google Earth35°01ʹ29ʺ N / 63°16ʹ59ʺ E / 980 m
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Survey of India MapSheet 29, Herat (1916): Moghor, F 31
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