'Shaykh Hamid Pasha', c1906-1913, (1915). Group portrait of a sheikh and his retinue, in a village '...which is situated perhaps two and half miles outside Bashkala...' (Baskale, in south-eastern Turkey?). Some of the men wear bandoliers filled with bullets. From "The Caliphs' Last Heritage, a short history of the Turkish Empire" by Lt.-Col. Sir Mark Sykes. [Macmillan & Co, London, 1915]
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