3I002 Trip to a Turkoman village

Categories
Special Collections > Blair Brainard Peace Corps in Afghanistan Photographic Collection
Subject
Turkmen--Afghanistan.
Creator
Brainard, Blair, 1942-
Type
positive slide
Coverage - Temporal
1967
Identifier
Brainard_3I002.tif
Language
English
Publisher
Radford University. McConnell Library. Archives & Special Collections.
Description
This was the village headman surrounded by the village children. As we visited, the headman told up of the story of his people coming to Afghanistan in the 1930s to escape the Soviet collectivization of his homeland. He talked of traveling by night to avoid the Soviet airplanes that were strafing and killing the people and animal herds. The Blair Brainard Peace Corps in Afghanistan Photographic Collection captures the photographers experience as a Peace Corps volunteer in Afghanistan, primarily in the city of Herat, 1965-1968.
Rights
Copyright for this collection is retained by Radford University. The images are available for free personal, non-commercial, and educational use, provided that proper citation is used (Brained, Blair. The Blair Brainard Peace Corps in Afghanistan Photographic Collection. McConnell Library Archives and Special Collections, Radford University, Radford, VA). Any commercial use of the materials, without the written permission of Radford University is strictly prohibited.