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@ellamaillart.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 7:51 AM

"They all want to know where my husband is. 'In Frunze,' says Mila, before I have time to answer, 'where he is awaiting our return. He was ill and so unable to leave with us.' "'You must remember,' says Mila to me in French ..."

#EllaMaillart #Photography #Kyrgyzstan #Baking #Tokochi #Tandoor

'Baking Flatbreads And Tokochis In A Tandoor', Ella Maillart, Kyrgyzstan, 1932 A Kyrghyz woman seated cross-legged on the floor, wearing traditional headwear and everyday garments, carefully apportions and shapes dough pieces for traditional round flatbreads (tokoč/tokochi). This traditional Central Asian flatbread is a regional variant of naan common across Kyrgyzstan and the wider Silk Road region. In the foreground is the opening to a sunken hearth or clay oven (tonir/tandir/tandyr/tandoor) with several rounds of already baked circular breads stacked on a cloth nearby and inside the rim.
@ellamaillart.bsky.socialOct 4, 2026, 7:05 AM

"I feel very pleased: I have really been initiated into the daily life of the Kirghiz as I longed to be in my dreams in far-away Paris. How that metropolis would appal my slow-moving neighbours if they could suddenly have a sight of it."

#EllaMaillart #Photography #Kyrgyzstan #Baking #Tokochi

'Kneading Dough For Tokochi', Ella Maillart, Kyrgyzstan, 1932 A Kirghiz woman kneels on the floor of a domestic bakery and kneads dough in a wooden trough for tokochi (a traditional flatbread) to be baked in a tandoor.