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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



Photograph from Horace Brodzky 



A MONGOLIAN WOMAN 01? T 1 1 IC WKAI.TH I KK CLASS WITH HER DAUGHTER 



Note the- string of beads in her hand, with which she toys; also note the talisman the 

 girl is wearing. The mother has on her summer hat of black velvet. It is not easy to get 

 a picture of a Mongolian child, for there is a superstition that Europeans use the eyes of 



•hilrlren to make the lenses of their cameras. 



