[Ushba mountain]
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[Ushba mountain]
From Svanetia (National Geographic Magazine)
2004
Inkjet print
Image: 4 3/4 × 7 in. (12.1 × 17.8 cm)
Paper: 5 1/8 × 7 1/2 in. (13 × 19.1 cm)
Mount: 8 1/2 × 11 in. (21.6 × 27.9 cm)
Gift of the FiftyCrows Foundation, 2015
2015.0133.1643
Inscriptions Printed in black ink on mount on recto, BC: 4. Ushba is a 17,000 ft. mountain in the Caucasus that towers over the villages of Mestia and Lengeri. / Its spine divides the Georgian Republic from Russia. Legend tells that Ushba was a man / who was turned to stone for loving the daughter of the moon. / (c) 2004 Aaron Huey
