Sunday, May 15, 2011

In Pakistan, a remote area in the north is inhabited by the Kalash tribe. Kalash is a Sanskrit word which means the wearers of black, which the women do wear. Non Islamic, they practice a religion based on multiple gods, and which may be one of the last ancient and ancestral belief systems remaining from the migration of these type of people thousands of years ago.




Often claimed to be the descendants of the army of Alexander the Great, the Kalash people of Pakistan have been shown by genetic testing to be unrelated to Greeks. In fact, they come from a much earlier migration of Aryan people who settled in the Hindu Kush. An interesting bunch, very tribal and very colorfully dressed.

This guy has a good set of images as well.




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