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0098 Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan : vol.1
Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan : vol.1 / Page 98 (Color Image)

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doi: 10.20676/00000234
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The connection with the people of Wakhan and Sarikol is
still maintained by occasional marriages, and the original
immigration from the Oxus Valley is distinctly remembered.
How the Hunza people proper, undoubtedly more warlike and
so pressed for land, acquiesced in this invasion, seems difficult
to explain. The peaceful character of the Wakhis is curiously
symbolised by the implement which every respectable house-