balkans-07 - from our story 'Lewis Hine’s Ethnographic Photographs of Balkan Peoples for the Red Cross Relief Efforts in 1919-1920'

"Balkan Travel Deluxe: The popular method of travel in Albania, where mountain follows mountain with bewildering rapidity. This Albanian mountaineer outweighs his donkey in everything except strength and stubbornness. This picture was taken outside the [Red Cross] dispensary at Scutari where the rider came for snakebite treatment after attempting unsuccessfully to cure himself with the popular method of applying cobwebs and tobacco juice."

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