We drove in a Morris Minor Traveller from Highbury to India
0.1 covers CCN sitting in an orchard beside the Bosphorus while John Keay shaves. Then to Kabul, and on Bamian Lake and the huge Buddhas carved into rock there. (since destroyed by the Taliban.) The images of dancers were taken near Gilgit, Pakistan.
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Rest House near Jim Corbet Park, UP. The Morris Traveller, we called ‘jewel of the East’, parked in front, Kranti Singh reading on left of picture while men clean the chairs.
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.
Kullu. As for 1.1.18 the Largi Mandi gorge road.
Kot temple, carved panels. Peacock and tiger head protruding form the end of the ridge pole.
Udaipur. Mirkula temple detail of the very fine wood carving of scenes from the Mahabharata
Dunghri Mela. Mother and child. The mother is wearing a traditional Kullui ‘pattu’, which is an un-cut length of tweed cloth, pinned below each shoulder. The pins are often attached to each other by a chain.
Manali Bazaar. Nepali woman and a school girl.
Manali Bazaar. Lahauli women.
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Rath’ being carried to Dunghri mela. (see 1.3.5)
Dunghri Mela. The ‘deota’s’ (god’s) utensils, including a yak tail whisk and a conch shell.
Keylong. Christina and two young women at Tsring Dorze’s (Bhoti master’s) house.
Kranti walking on the unstable track through the gorge into Miyar, the only way in at the time.
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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.
Women and child near Jispa.
Girls on a bus. The coat/dress is called ‘cholu’ in Miyar. In Lahaul it is called ‘katter’
Boy in traditional tweed coat
House near Keylong. Note the verandah.
Village near Jispa. The ibex horns are an offering to Bonpo deity.
Looking back down into the Bhaga Valley, on the way to the Baralacha Pass.
Looking up towards the Baralacha La (Pass). Christina & Tsring Dorze (Bhoti master).
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.
Tsring Dorze’s wife. Making buckwheat pancakes, in their house near Keylong.
Lahaul summer. Elderly shepherd with dogs, near Jispa.
Jispa, portrait of a boy in a hat.
A yak near Kurgiakhkh with mountains behind it & track across the hill.
Ladakhi woman cleaning barley. Wearing wool cloak & amber necklace.
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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.
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Chorten, with Tikse gompa (monastery) on the hill behind.
Hay in foreground, several large houses and mountains beyond.
Houses. Buddhist shrine on the left. Hay drying in yard. A layer of furze on the roof. High snowy mountains in background.
Leh bazaar. Jeeps to hire as taxis. Two women in traditional clothes, one with child on her back. Poster for a Hindi movie.
