Kazakh Girl
Eastern Mongolia 2014
She played happily as her brother, on horseback, herded their cashmere goats. (Perhaps her father was selecting goats to drive to market.) She wore a tiny ‘dell’, (a Mongolian robe tied with a sash) and handmade leather boots with turned up toes…the better to slip into a stirrup. She showed no evidence of shyness despite being brought up in this empty steppe.