Zanskar. Testha girls in gowns & caps. Chortens marking the path out from the village.
Testha children. Caps & woollen rags & an amulet on the girl/boy in front.
Kurgiakh Valley. Testha child, chortens marking the path down from Kurgiakh village. Another path climbs up the hill
Testha village. Children with traditional caps. Note ragged cloak in which to carry little sister.
Testha. Making a rope. Chortens in background.
Testha children in bonnets
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Testha children, girl in middle with necklace. Child asleep on sister’s back
Testha children. Ragged cloak in which to carry little brother & sister. Child with amulets in pouches on his / her back.
Zanskar. Testha woman & children.
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Karsha, Chamba’s village. Detail of mud brick house in foreground and furze on roof. materials. Other similar houses on the steep slope above, some very substantial.
On the way from Karsha back to camp, it’s getting late & dark. High snow peaks in the background and silhouette of chorten on the hill.
Children in front of Karsha village, Chamba’s home village. Contrast between sunlight and shade too much.
Karsha, Chamba’s village. View South through the village and across the plains of Padam to the Great Himalayan range, or the Zanskar Range beyond
A bridge on the way to the Pensi La Pass.
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Christina riding towards the Pensi La Pass on the way to Kargil.
Karsha, Chamba’s village. View South through the village, chorten in foreground, and across the plains of Padam.
Kasha village. A house entrance & baskets of dung/wood roots ? for fuel.
Karsha village. Chamba’s house. Furze in foreground, for fuel and or for the roof ?
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Christina Noble crossing the Chandrabhaga in a ‘jhula’. The first bit is OK, you come whooshing down, but then it stops and you hang over the raging torrent until someone begins to pull you, slowly, up the other side.
Chandrabhaga. Dorze, the chaukidar of Thirot Rest House and his friend.
Near Kargil, Kashmiris / Gujars?
Detail of house of handsome traditional built house
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Woman wearing traditional amber, coral, silver coin & turquoise jewellery. CN didn’t realise woman had only one eye until after she’d taken the photograph.
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Kot, view of temple store, children on balcony
Kot, temple store. The rope hanging under the balcony is said to have been used in sacrifices
Trekking, at a camp. Christina Noble sorting rations.
Near Takrasi, note the footpaths across the hill in the distance
Kot Temple, the tiger’s head on the end of the ridge pole.
Kot temple. An ornamental peacock protruding from corner of the roof
Inside Kot temple, carved wooden facing birds on the columns & iron rings
Above Keylong. The bier of the chomo.
Above Keylong. Women mourners at the funeral of a ‘chomo’
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Above Keylong. Above Keylong. Women mourners at the funeral of a ‘chomo’.
Above Keylong. Funeral procession with ‘chomo’s bier passing through the village
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