Gulyas & Csikos - Hungarian cowboys

 Salvete Omnes,

just a gallery of historic and more contemporary horses of the Hungarian cowboys- csikos, their horses, gray cattle and sheep, their whips, and their Hungarian post - all in their puszta (the Hungarian Plain).

 

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New Article on horse domestication - DOM2 horse population

 Salvete Omnes,

a short post to a great new article by dr David Anthony et al. - Horse genetics, archaeology, and the beginning of riding.

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from the article

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one of the earliest images of a domesticated (allegedly) horse - from Maykop Culture ware

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Guardroom with a saddle and armor by Thomas Apshoven

 Salvete Omnes,

Flemish painter Thomas Apshoven (1622- circa1667) painted genre scenes, including guardrooms similar to David Teniers the Younger.

. in this detail we see a fine riding saddle typical of the period - mid XVII century - in Western Europe

saddle, horseman ax and a sabre with a thumb guard/ring

a pair of pistols for a horseman 

a cavalry trumpet?

a spur?  pieces of armor

The Wiki Commons galleries have   this painting showing a village life -

in the background there are two wagons painted in rather sketchy manner, being far removed from the main scenes by the river - boats, washing laundry and bathing etc.

. two types of water wells in these paintings 

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Teniers the Younger - horses, saddles and riders

 Salvete Omnes,

David Teniers the Younger (II) - 1610-1690) - Flemish Baroque master 

David Teniers after Antonio Messina

the rider with a lance on a paint horse appears Hungarian, Polish or Croatian

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page holding a horse for his master, detail 

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carriage driver seated on the special seat in front of the carriage proper

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saddle with pistol holsters, and cavalry drum set 

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battle of Valenciennes detail - cavalry drums, saddle and saddled horse

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