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Total number of records: 14

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items11
Textiles3

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
International Textile Collection3
Brotherton Collection2
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections1
Herbert Read Collection1
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society1
Leeds Russian Archive1
Liddle Collection1

Count of Subject

SubjectCount
afghan wars2
british1
russians1

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Afghanistan14
Amu River1
Asia, Central1
Delhi1
India1
Iran1
Kafiristan, Afghanistan1
Pakistan1
Peshawar1
Punjab1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Arbeitsgemeinschaft Afghanistan1
Dost Muhammad, Amir of Afghanistan, 1793-18631
Eyre, Sir Vincent (1811-1881)1
India. Army. Punjab Frontier Force1
Jones, Schuyler (1930-)1
Maillart, Ella (1903-1997)1
Popalzayi, ʻAziz Al-Din Wakili1
Qatib, Faiz Muhammad1
Radio Free Europe1
Radio Liberty (Munich, Germany)1

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From 18004
From 19008

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Up to 19999

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Tārīkh Khirqā-yi Sharifa-yi Qandahār

Popalzāyī, ʻAzīz al-Dīn Wakīlī

[1991]

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Sirāj al-akhbar

Qatib, Faiz Muhammad

[1912]

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Afghanistan December 27, 1979 : Special issue

Radio Free Europe; Radio Liberty (Munich, Germany)

1987

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phulkari shawl
Textile

phulkari shawl

before 1946

This shawl is decorated with phulkari embroidery, a technique from the Punjab which is characterised by the use of darning stitch. The design is of densely worked roundels with chevron and lozenge pa...

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The cruel way

Maillart, Ella (1903-1997)

[1947]

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shawl
Textile

shawl

c. 1986

This shawl was purchased in an Afghan refugee camp (possibly Katcha Gari) situated on the outskirts of Peshawar in the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan, where it was also manufactured. It is w...

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shawl
Textile

shawl

c. 1986

This shawl was purchased in an Afghan refugee camp (possibly Katcha Gari) situated on the outskirts of Peshawar in the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan, where it was also manufactured. It is ...

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Afghanistan Journal

Arbeitsgemeinschaft Afghanistan

Jg.8, Heft 2 (1981)

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