Tyari village. September. Three men on stone bench smoking ‘biris’ and chatting. One is spinning on a ‘takli’. One wears a woollen hat and patched woollen clothes. There is a ball of wool on the bench.
Above Bramour. Budil nala. Village house. Maize drying on slate roof. Note quality of wooden balconies. Snow peaks across the valley.
Tyari village. My friend Sunni Devi wearing luanchari & ‘dora’, with children who don’t look very healthy.
Upper Ravi Valley. On the way from Holi towards the Jalsu Pass, path along the cliff face. Autumn migration South.
Above Nayagraon. On the way to Jalsu Pass. Autumn migration – South. Lambs in the foreground. A shepherd in silhouette wearing ‘chola’ & ‘dora’ , carrying a bonneted child across his pack, and lambs in his front pouch.
Above Nayagraon. On the way to Jalsu Pass. The man is carrying a pack and child (in velvet bonnet) across the pack, and lambs in his front pouch. Note strong leather shoes.
Houses on the outskirts of Bramour town. A woman coming downstairs from the roof
Village above Bramour. Staircase onto roof where corn is drying, and a loom in foreground.
Village above Bramour. In foreground a goat beside slate-roofed shed, background snow peaks.
View of upper Ravi from above Bramour. illustrating the scale of the landscape – a narrow path, terraces, houses on the crests and snow peaks above forest level.
Autumn migration South. Packing up before setting off, young shepherd sitting on wool sack. Similar to 4.14.13 in this one more packs with blankets, and goat’s hair rope.
On the way to the Jalsu Pass. Autumn migration South. September-October. Young shepherd penning lambs before flock goes out to graze. Note wool sack, woollen blankets, and jacket, and the hookah.
Approaching the Jalsu Pass, on the Ravi side. Autumn migration South. September/October. Flat roofed Gujar dwelling in the background and view of peaks across the Ravi.
Man, child and woman, with heavy packs, climbing out of Ravi Valley towards Jalsu Pass. Autumn migration South. September-October.
Climbing out of Ravi Valley towards Jalsu Pass. Autumn migration South. September-October. Man & woman with heavy packs and checked blankets. Woman wearing tucked up ‘luanchari’ of Rajasthani print cloth. Child walking
Gaddi man with a heavy pack and blankets, and two children coming up to the Jalsu Pass. Note: the Gaddis carry their children horizontally on their backs.
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Upper Ravi Valley, Near Nayagraon. Autumn migration, September. Tea stop. Girl wearing luanchari, ‘dora’, hair jewellery called ‘ring’
On the way up Ravi Valley. Autumn migration South. September-October. A flock of sheep and goats. Shepherd with woolsack, hookah. Wearing a ‘chola’. Woman on the right, has been or is about to rest her pack on the stone resting platform.
Lahaul, Miyar Valley. Summer pastures. Shepherd stitching a leather tobacco pouch.
Holi village. Ravi Valley. Women in ‘luanchari’ waiting with their children outside a dispensary.
Holi village, ration and ‘biri’ shop.
Holi village, Ravi valley, cobblers, leather shoes and only a couple of plastic ones.
Holi village, Ravi Valley. Shop of a hookah and ‘murthi’ maker.
Holi village, Ravi valley. Moulds for hookah casts.
Holi village, Ravi valley. Carded wool in a basket and two spinning wheels.
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Nayagraon, Upper Ravi Valley, girls dressed for me to photograph them, in cotton ‘luanchari’, with velvet bodice, ‘dora’,’cheri’ and other jewellery.
Manimahesh, 13,000 ft. Mount Kailash. Mangal Singh and Kulluis (West Himalayan Holiday porters) performing ‘pooja’ at the shrine to Lord Shiva.
Mount Kailash, Shiva’s seat, and shrine to him at Manimahesh Lake. 13,000 ft.
Mount Kailash, Shiva’s seat, and shrine to him at Manimahesh Lake. 13,000 ft.
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Having crossed the Chobu Pass through the Manimahesh Dhar (ridge, on the way down towards Tyari village. Kids and lambs near Sari ‘Got’ (grazing), snow peaks above Ravi valley.
On the way down from Manimahesh ‘dhar ‘(ridge) after Sari ‘Got’ (grazing ground), Towards Tyari village. Shrine at a village. September. Autumn migration South.
From Tyari village looking across Ravi Valley to a glacier and peaks.
From camp below Manimahesh, looking back down towards Hadsar & Budil Valley.
At Danchock on the way up to Manimahesh, West Himalayan Holiday camp kitchen.
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Lahaul, Miyar Valley. Summer pastures. July / August. Gompa ‘got’. Looking down the valley towards Thanpattan.
Lahaul, Miyar Valley, July / August. Goats at Gompa ‘got’ summer grazing . Looking down valley and to the glacier.
Lahaul, Miyar Valley. Gaddi at Thanpattan, summer pastures. He is wearing a Lahauli cap, tweed jacket and has a cricket bat as he has been playing cricket with West Himalayan Holidays trekkers camped here.
Kangra, 1,500 ft. Early Spring migration from winter pastures. Dhaular Dhar in background.
Kangra, near Dera Gopipur, Sunni Devi at winter camp. Man spinning on a ‘takli’.
Kangra, Sunni Devi & brother at a winter camp near Dera Gopipur. This is their temporary ‘chula’ because they move on so often.
Kangra near Dera Gopipur. Sunni Devi carrying a pack at her winter camp. Note goat hair woven rope and willow wood hasps.
Gaddi women near Baijnath (Kangra)
Near Dera Gopipur. Sunni Devi at winter camp. Mungal Singh in the middle.
a typical Kangra house, with Mandi slate roof
