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.
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Contact sheet IV 14B 1982
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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.
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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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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.
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Parasher. A ‘mela’ (fair). Images 13, 15 are also of the mela.
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The canvas land map. The Patwari is holding the map of land holdings showing the strips of plots that we were buying. It was 21 biswas and we paid rs 3,500 a biswas. (at the time it was calculated to be £17,500 per acre) In 1990 9ie 6 years after us) a Delhi developer paid rs 32 000 per biswas.
Contact sheet IV 16B 1983
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Contact sheet IV 17B 1983
Mangal Singh, Rahul, and Tara at a West Himalayan Holidays camp. Tara pretending to smoke a ‘biri’.
Miyar at Thanpattan left to right Kullu Lama, Mangal Singh, Madan Tara, Topchen, and the yak they caught.
Lahaul, Miyar Valley. Summer pastures. Shepherd stitching a leather tobacco pouch.
Gyal Chand, pony man at the West Himalayan Holidays campsite below Tchaling. Urgos village is visible on the other side of the valley.
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Holi village, ration and ‘biri’ shop.
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Holi village, Ravi Valley. Shop of a hookah and ‘murthi’ maker.
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Nayagraon village, Upper Ravi Valley. Two women dressed in their best for me to photograph them ‘luanchari’, ‘dora’, headdress, necklaces, and medallions with a mirror at the center. They are both wearing watches.
Holi village, Ravi valley. Carded wool in a basket and two spinning wheels.
Nayagraon village, Upper Ravi Valley. Girls dressed for me to photograph them, cotton ‘luanchari’ with velvet bodice, ‘dora’, ‘cheri’ and other jewellery .
Nayagraon, Upper Ravi Valley, girls dressed for me to photograph them, in cotton ‘luanchari’, with velvet bodice, ‘dora’,’cheri’ and other jewellery.
Gaddis, Nayagraon village, Upper Ravi Valley. A woman dressed in her best for me to photograph her ‘luanchari’, ‘dora’, headdress, necklaces (several kinds), and medallions with a mirror at the center.
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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.
Manimahesh Lake & Mount Kailash
Having climbed up from Manimahesh lake, the Chobu Pass on the Manimahesh ridge, looking South, down onto Ravi Valley.
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