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All five horses’ hooves penetrate the river surface and meet the visible bed; compressed wavelets and muddy wakes begin at each leg. The lead rider’s closed hands contact taut reins that connect to the horse’s bridle; both boots rest inside the stirrups. Each pack rests on a wooden saddle and is held against the horse by visible straps passing beneath its barrel. Distant animals stand on the far-bank approach rather than within the water or sky. Water reflections remain directly below their corresponding horses and break with the same ripples. Each horse is about 1.4–1.5 m at the shoulder; the lead mounted figure is about 2.7 m from riverbed to head. It is late 1255 to early 1256: Mongol wool and felt coats, trousers, leather boots, soft fur-edged caps; riders seen mainly from behind.; Unpolished iron fittings, leather tack, wool felt, hide-wrapped packs, wooden saddle frames and natural river mud.; Steppe horse tack, composite bows in closed cases and wooden pack saddles appropriate to a thirteenth-century overland host.", "style_description": {"aesthetics": "Cold, deliberate forward movement.. 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