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Zanskar

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1975

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Clothes

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2.20.11

Testha children.

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Zanskar

+ Year

1975

+ Keyword

Clothes, Customs

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2.20.12

Zanskar. Testha girls in gowns & caps. Chortens marking the path out from the village.

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Zanskar

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1975

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Clothes, Customs

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2.20.14

Testha children. Caps & woollen rags & an amulet on the girl/boy in front.

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Zanskar

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1975

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Clothes, Customs, Landscape

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2.20.16

Kurgiakh Valley. Testha child, chortens marking the path down from Kurgiakh village. Another path climbs up the hill

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Ladakh & Zanskar

+ Year

1975

+ Keyword

Clothes

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2.20.22

Testha village. Children with traditional caps. Note ragged cloak in which to carry little sister.

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Zanskar

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1975

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2.20.25

Testha. Making a rope. Chortens in background.

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Zanskar

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1975

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Clothes, Craft

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2.20.26

Testha children in bonnets

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Ladakh & Zanskar

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1975

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2.20.30

Testha village children.

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Zanskar

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1975

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Clothes, Craft

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2.20.31

Testha children, girl in middle with necklace. Child asleep on sister’s back

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Zanskar

+ Year

1975

+ Keyword

Clothes, Customs

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2.20.32

Testha children. Ragged cloak in which to carry little brother & sister. Child with amulets in pouches on his / her back.

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Zanskar

+ Year

1975

+ Keyword

Clothes

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2.20.4

Zanskar. Testha woman & children.

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Zanskar

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1975

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Clothes, Craft, Customs

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2.20.5

Testha. Making a rope. Men in traditional woollen gowns. Chorten in background.

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Ladakh & Zanskar

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1975

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2.20.9

Testha children.

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Various

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1975

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Contact Sheet

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2.21

Contact sheet II 21 1975

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Zanskar

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1975

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Architecture, Craft

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2.21.10

Karsha, Chamba’s village. Detail of mud brick house in foreground and furze on roof. materials. Other similar houses on the steep slope above, some very substantial.

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Zanskar

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1975

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2.21.12

On the way from Karsha back to camp, it’s getting late & dark. High snow peaks in the background and silhouette of chorten on the hill.

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Zanskar

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1975

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2.21.14

Children in front of Karsha village, Chamba’s home village. Contrast between sunlight and shade too much.

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Zanskar

+ Year

1975

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Architecture, Landscape

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2.21.2

Karsha, Chamba’s village. View South through the village and across the plains of Padam to the Great Himalayan range, or the Zanskar Range beyond

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Zanskar

+ Year

1975

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Transport

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2.21.23A

A bridge on the way to the Pensi La Pass.

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Zanskar

+ Year

1975

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Agriculture

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2.21.24

On the way from Padam to Kargil. Yaks yoked to the plough. Woman leading them and man guiding the plough behind.

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Zanskar

+ Year

1975

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Landscape, Transport

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2.21.28

Christina riding towards the Pensi La Pass on the way to Kargil.

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Zanskar

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1975

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Architecture, Landscape

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2.21.3

Karsha, Chamba’s village. View South through the village, chorten in foreground, and across the plains of Padam.

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Zanskar

+ Year

1975

+ Keyword

Architecture, Craft, Wool

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2.21.5

Kasha village. A house entrance & baskets of dung/wood roots ? for fuel.

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Zanskar

+ Year

1975

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Architecture, Craft

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2.21.7

Karsha village. Chamba’s house. Furze in foreground, for fuel and or for the roof ?

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Zanskar

+ Year

1975

+ Keyword

Landscape

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2.21.8

On the way from Karsha back to camp, it’s getting late & dark. High snow peaks in the background and silhouette of chorten on the hill.

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Various

+ Year

1974

+ Keyword

Contact Sheet

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2.23

Contact sheet II 23 74.

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Pangi

+ Year

1974

+ Keyword

Transport

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2.23.16

Christina Noble crossing the Chandrabhaga in a ‘jhula’. The first bit is OK, you come whooshing down, but then it stops and you hang over the raging torrent until someone begins to pull you, slowly, up the other side.

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Pangi

+ Year

1974

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Rest House

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2.23.21

Chandrabhaga. Dorze, the chaukidar of Thirot Rest House and his friend.

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Ladakh

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1974

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2.23.27

Near Kargil, Kashmiris / Gujars?

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Ladakh

+ Year

1974

+ Keyword

Architecture

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2.23.34A

Detail of house of handsome traditional built house

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Ladakh

+ Year

1974

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Agriculture, Landscape

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2.23.35A

A woman winnowing, a basket for grass/hay. Willow trees and a large house on the hill above

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Ladakh

+ Year

1974

+ Keyword

Agriculture, Clothes, Craft

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2.23.37

Woman wearing traditional amber, coral, silver coin & turquoise jewellery. CN didn’t realise woman had only one eye until after she’d taken the photograph.

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Various

+ Year

1974

+ Keyword

Contact Sheet

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2.24

Contact sheet II 24 1974

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Various

+ Year

1974

+ Keyword

Contact Sheet

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2.24b

Contact sheet II 24B 1974

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Saraj

+ Year

1974

+ Keyword

Temple

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2.24.19A

Kot, view of temple store, children on balcony

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Saraj

+ Year

1974

+ Keyword

Temple

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2.24.23A

Kot, temple store. The rope hanging under the balcony is said to have been used in sacrifices

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High Altitude

+ Year

1974

+ Keyword

Work

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2.24.26a

Trekking, at a camp. Christina Noble sorting rations.

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Saraj

+ Year

1974

+ Keyword

Landscape

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2.24.29A

Near Takrasi, note the footpaths across the hill in the distance

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Saraj

+ Year

1974

+ Keyword

Temple

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2.24.5A

Kot Temple, the tiger’s head on the end of the ridge pole.

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Saraj

+ Year

1974

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Temple

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2.24.6A

Kot temple. An ornamental peacock protruding from corner of the roof

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Saraj

+ Year

1974

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Temple

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2.24.8

Inside Kot temple, carved wooden facing birds on the columns & iron rings

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Various

+ Year

1974

+ Keyword

Contact Sheet

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2.25

Contact sheet II 25 1974

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Lahaul

+ Year

1974

+ Keyword

Customs

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2.25.10A

Above Keylong. The bier of the chomo.

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Lahaul

+ Year

1974

+ Keyword

Customs

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2.25.11A

Above Keylong. Women mourners at the funeral of a ‘chomo’

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Lahaul

+ Year

1974

+ Keyword

Customs

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2.25.13A

Above Keylong. Funeral of ‘chomo’ , lama musicians with drum, on a roof.

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Lahaul

+ Year

1974

+ Keyword

Customs

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2.25.14A

Above Keylong. Above Keylong. Women mourners at the funeral of a ‘chomo’.

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Lahaul

+ Year

1974

+ Keyword

Customs

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2.25.16A

Above Keylong. Funeral procession with ‘chomo’s bier passing through the village

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Lahaul

+ Year

1974

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Customs

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2.25.18A

Above Keylong. Gompa (monastery) where the funeral of ‘chomo’ (nun, or female lama) was held. ‘Drop toilet in the corner of the veranda. I was taken to the funeral by Tsring Dorze, ‘Bhoti Master’.

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Lahaul

+ Year

1974

+ Keyword

Architecture

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2.25.20A

Houses near Keylong, old style with built in verandas. Plentiful wood pile
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