23rd Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Travel
Mama

Maria is a mother living in a village on the China-Pakistan border. Her husband and kids are all stationed at the frontier. To provide them with nourishing food for their duties, she is carefully filling a sheep's lung with a flour-water mixture to make steamed sheep lung - a sustaining meal for her family to take on their journeys.

Photo Detail
Date Taken: 03.2025
Date Uploaded: 12.2025
Photo Location: Tashkurgan, China
Copyright: © Huiyi Guo