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Kashmir Dancers, Pakistan, 1988

Dancers engage in what looks like hand-to-hand combat in Karimabad in Pakistani Kashmir. The dance, performed to hypnotic music played by local musicians, begins slowly and builds to a dramatic, saber-waving crescendo.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, the National Geographic book Mountain Worlds, 1988)

Photograph by George F. Mobley

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