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Eric Parker fonds

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  • ca. 1910-11 - 198?

The fonds consists primarily of material accumulated and/or created by Lt. Col. Parker during the period of his military duties in Tibet and time spent there after his release from the military (1921-1924). This material includes textual records such as correspondence relating to military matters with Sir Charles Bell, and those written to, and received from, Tibetan officers and the 13th Dalai Lama. A few letters written in Tibetan have been recently translated into English and are included in the fonds. Other textual materials includes handwritten speech and other notes, published documents such as an Almanac (written in Tibetan), newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous items such as philatelic materials and handwritten children's rhymes and songs.

The fonds also contains a collection of black and white photographs and negatives, the majority of which were images taken by Lt. Col. Parker, while others, predate Parker’s time in Tibet. The photographs are housed in two albums (Photograph Collections A and B), and show Tibet primarily in the 1920s. The images depict military and domestic scenes in Tibet including photographs of individuals from all social strata, as well as local architecture and landscapes. Some of the places (e.g., monasteries) no longer exist. The albums also contain more recent colour prints of the many Tibetan objects acquired by the Parkers (and now housed in the Ethnology Collection at the Museum of Anthropology). Some duplicates occur within and between albums. The negatives correspond to prints in one album (Photograph Collection A). Only a small number of negatives have not been printed.
The fonds is arranged in the following 3 series:

  1. Correspondence
  2. Photographs
  3. Miscellaneous Materials

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Military Period

This file contains correspondence between Eric Parker and Charles Bell, the 13th Dalai Lama, and his wife Minnie Parker.

ref # 4-1-1

Later repaired

Later repaired

Item is a photograph showing a man on horseback and a child on a bridge. The title refers to the previous photograph, a033550, in which the road way to Gangtok had been washed out in a flood.

Kalimpo[n]g homes

Kalimpo[n]g homes

Item is a photograph showing a hillside with houses scattered in the distance.

Dak bung[a]low

Dak bung[a]low

Item is a photograph showing a landscape with a river in the foreground and mountains in the background. A single house is in the centre. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, a <i>dak</i> is referred to as being "a post system by means of transport relays of horses stationed at intervals along a route or network, carrying mail and passengers". A dak bungalow refers to a lodging house, typically one story with a large verandah, along a dak route.

Wooden fence around Yutang village

Wooden fence around Yutang village

Item is a negative the entrance to Yutang village surrounded by wooden fence. Horses stand outside the fence. Ground and roof tops are snow covered.

Bhutanese trader in Yutang

Bhutanese trader in Yutang

Item is a negative showing a group of men sitting in front of a house. There is a man, a Bhutanese trader, walking on a path in front of the house. There is a snow covered mountain in the background.

Phari Jong in a blizzard

Phari Jong in a blizzard

Item is a negative showing the Phari village bazaar marketplace. Mount Chumalabi can be seen in the background.

Mt. Everest

Mt. Everest

Item is a negative showing a mountainous landscape. There are a group of horses and men at the bottom left hand side of the image.

Mount Everest expedition crew

Mount Everest expedition crew

Item is a negative showing a group of men and horses milling in front of an unidentified village. There are mountains in the background.

Red idol [of] Gorge

Red idol [of] Gorge

Item is a negative showing a landscape with mountains in the background. There is a statue of what appears to be a Buddha figure in the forefront of the image.

[New] fort [at] Gyantse

[New] fort [at] Gyantse

Item is a negative showing a large stone building with walls. There is a mountain in the background.

Gyantse plain

Gyantse plain

Item is a negative showing a landscape with mountains in the background. Gyantse Fort can be seen on a large spur on the left side of the image.

Gyantse

Gyantse

Item is a negative showing a head on look of the small village of Gyantse. There is a road in the forefront of the image where three 90th Punjabi soldiers walk ahead of a Tibetan solider on the right bank of the road. There are mountains in the background.

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