Kalash Figure

A rare Kalash memorial Gandau figure dating to the early 20th/19th century.

A myth tells that the Kalash are descended from Alexander the Great and his armies although no evidence exists to support this. A recent genetic study found that were a unique people with little outside contribution.  They stand alone in this area of the world in having resisted Islam and practice a form of animism and ancestor worship.

Kalash sculpture is extremely rare, I have had smaller Kalash figures in the past but larger memorial sculpture such as this never appears on to the market.

There are some related examples that were photographed by Thesiger in the 50’s and Reginald Charles Francis Schomberg in 1935, in the Pitt Rivers collections.

1m 27cm. Stone eyes, old varnish?

Kafiristan (historic)

Kalash. Chitral.

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