Ethnographic Room, Second Floor At Top of Stairs.

July 1993
A fine collection of Pashtun, Tajik, Hazara, Nuristani, and old Kabuli wedding costumes and embroideries displayed in the Ethnographic Room, together with Nuristani and Pashtun jewelry, disappeared. Many of the pre-Islamic, 19th century Nuristani wooden grave effigies on display here were cut up for fire wood.
Photo: Jolyon Leslie.

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Contained in galleries: NATIONAL MUSEUM I - BCE (Before Common Era)

July 1993<br />
A fine collection of Pashtun, Tajik, Hazara, Nuristani, and old Kabuli wedding costumes and embroideries displayed in the Ethnographic Room, together with Nuristani and Pashtun jewelry, disappeared. Many of the pre-Islamic, 19th century Nuristani wooden grave effigies on display here were cut up for fire wood. <br />
Photo: Jolyon Leslie.