Costumes of the Past, Flags of the Present
Photograph
Costumes of the Past, Flags of the Present
Mongolia: Recognition at Last?
1959
Gelatin silver print, printed 1961
Image: 9 1/4 × 6 3/16 in. (23.5 × 15.7 cm)
Paper: 10 × 8 in. (25.4 × 20.3 cm)
Gift of Time-Life Books
1968.0184.0019
Inscriptions Typed in black ink on applied label on verso, TC: (Mongolia) 7/61 10) COSTUMES OF THE PAST, FLAGS OF THE PRESENT: \ Mongolian wrestlers dressed as in the days of Genghis Khan \ march in the anniversary parade of the 1921 People's \ Revolution in Ulan Bator. Later, the wrestlers will compete \ in the Great Nadom, the national games for five honorable \ titles: Invincible Titan, Titan, Lion, Elephant, and Falcon. \ Credit: CARTIER-BRESSON © 1961 MAGNUM PHOTOS
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