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a group of women walking across the Hunza riverbed after gathering wood in Pakistan
January 4, 2015

Gathered Greens

A group of Wakhi women return from a daily excursion across Pakistan’s Hunza riverbed to gather fodder and wood for their cooking fires. Photographer Matthieu Paley has been traveling the world in search of our ancestral ties to the food we eat.

See more photos from Matthieu Paley's culinary explorations in Pakistan and around the world on Proof.

Photograph by Matthieu Paley, National Geographic

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