photographic print(B&W)
- Museum number
- Lynch.13
- Title
- Object: Bacha and 13 others strung up
- Description
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Photograph on a postcard of a number of dead bodies, including that of Habibullah Kalakani [aka Bacha i Saqao], hanging by their necks from a crude gallows, in the foreground a large crowd of men and in the background: cows, houses and mountains. Each of the bodies is labelled in Persian handwriting and that of Bacha i Saqao (the corpse on the far left), in English, in ink on the copyprint.
- Production date
- 1929 (October/November)
- Dimensions
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Height: 8.40 millimetres
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Width: 13.60 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- On page 12 of the original album.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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none
- Associated events
- Associated Event: Execution of Bacha i Saqao and his followers 1929 (Late October or early November)
- Acquisition date
- 1995 (10th February)
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- Lynch.13