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INDIA. Landakh. 1969.
Two Ladakhi women in a crowd at Leh, watching a polo match.The youngwoman is carrying two babies, the older woman wears on her shoulders a kind of cloak in goatskin, with the longhaired skin outside.This is worn by Ladakhi women as a protection against the sweeping icy Himalayan winds.Both wear the jaunty tall quilted borcade and velvet
hat.A match of Asian polo was being played below the Leh Monastery at 11.500 ft altitude 
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