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Buzkashi: Like Polo, But With A Headless Goat

NPR | By Sean Carberry

Published May 4, 2014 at 2:38 AM PDT

A chapandaz exhibits nearly perfect form: Whip in mouth, he hoists the buz — or ball — under his right leg and steers the horse with his left arm, during a round of buzkashi. — A *chapandaz* exhibits nearly perfect form: Whip in mouth, he hoists the *buz* — or ball — under his right leg and steers the horse with his left arm, during a round of buzkashi.

Buzkashi is a centuries-old game in Afghanistan in which men on horses compete to pick up the carcass of a dead calf, carry it across a field, and drop it in a designated circle. See the full story here.

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