Kullu. The Largi-Mandi gorge road. In the 1970s this section of the road was often blocked, sometimes involving ‘trans-shipment’- walking across the block to a bus waiting the other side, you hoped.
Tsring Dorze, Bhoti Master in his potato field. Near Keylong. He, like many Lahaulis, was a potato connoisseur, I took him some Golden Wonder potatoes seed form Scotland and they grew well; perhaps these are Golden Wonders.
Staircase to the roof level in a Lahauli house. A ‘jharu’, a sack of potatoes, and a goat-hair woven mat under the roof. Traditionally built houses in the background.
Woman wearing traditional headdress with turquoises & a cloak of sheep or goat skin. Child in basket on her back, child’s cap decorated with cowrie shell.
Ladakhi woman wearing traditional headdress with turquoises & a cloak of sheep or goat skin. Child in basket on her back, wearing traditional child’s cap with cowrie shell.