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.
Ravi Valley on the way to Holi. West Himalayan Holiday porters crossing the Ravi river.
Contact sheet IV 14B 1982
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.
Near the Jalsu Pass, West Himalayan Holidays camp kitchen near a Gaddi camp
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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.
Upper Ravi. Autumn migration South. Young shepherd carrying many lambs and kids. Another shepherd in ‘chola’ and ‘dora’ behind. In the background a stone hotel ‘dhaba’ building.
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.
Contact sheet IV 15B 1983
Parasher. A ‘mela’ (fair). Images 13, 15 are also of the mela.
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Cobbler near Baijnath. He has made a pair of ladies shoes in leather, for a Gaddini ?
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Contact sheet IV 16B 1983
Sujanpur bazaar, old clothes stall and a snacks trolley
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.
Contact sheet IV 18B 1983
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.
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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.
Contact sheet IV 19B 1983
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.
Manimahesh Lake & Mount Kailash
Having climbed up from Manimahesh lake, the Chobu Pass on the Manimahesh ridge, looking South, down onto Ravi Valley.
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.
