[Twins are born into the Ratiani family in Mestia]
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[Twins are born into the Ratiani family in Mestia]
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
2015.0133.1658
Inscriptions Printed in black ink on mount on recto, BC: 19. Twins are born into the Ratiani family at the hospital in Mestia. The Mestia hospital is the only hospital in / the region, it has no heat besides wood stoves, and no glass in most of the windows. / The doctors here have not been paid in over a year. / (c) 2004 Aaron Huey
