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Document Details : Title: The Pakol Subtitle: A Distinctive, but Apparently not so Very Old Headgear from the Indo-Iranian Borderlands Author(s): VOGELSANG, Willem Journal: Khil'a Volume: 2 Date: 2006 Pages: 149-155 DOI: 10.2143/KH.2.0.2021290 Abstract : This article focuses on a very distinctive type of headdress, widely worn in the tribal parts of Pakistan and in parts of eastern Afghanistan. The article discusses the political meaning of wearing such a headdress, its history, and in particular its often assumed origins with the Greek-Macedonian invaders of Afghanistan in the fourth century B.C. |
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