#buzkashi

[colonellickburger]

Todd Antony. From the series Buzkashi. Tajikistan

[souseiki]

‘Buzkashi is a brutal sport that dates back to Genghis Khan. These Tajik players are trying to grab the body of a goat and drop it over a goal line. It’s every man for himself – and games can last six hours’

Photograph: Todd Antony

[thejawsdevour]

Rashed Rahmani (Afghan) - Buzkashi (watercolor)

[safije]

Afghanistan 1970s

©️ Ronald and Sabrina Michaud

[mainlagtihoonsridevi]

Hold your horses, SRIDEVI is on horse!

[visitafghanistan]

The horsemen of the Panshir Valley play a game of Buzkashi against the Parwan Province Friday, 02 April 2004, in Kabul. These are the last games in the competition this season as temperatures go up and wounds or scratches infect easily in the heat of Afghanistan. The horses are among the strongest, quickest, and trained to assist the rider a maximum when reaching for the goat or strategically defending it against the other players. The horsemen have to pick up the goat, ride around the field and drop it in a circle on the ground. If done so, they are awarded about a Euro by the wealthy spectators.

[thelovelygods]

Buzkashi Player, Afghanistan, 1959

Photographed by Schuyler Jones

Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford

2013.3.8261

[sheltiechicago]

Istanbul, Turkey

Teams compete in buzkashi at the fifth Etnospor culture festival held at Atatürk airport. Buzkashi is the central Asian sport in which horse-mounted players attempt to drag a goat or calf carcass toward a goal

Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images