Audrey and Harry Hawthorn Library and Archives

Main temple

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Item
[1922?]

Part of Eric Parker fonds

Item is a negative showing the an entrance way to the main temple in Gyantse.

Jeweled alter

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Item
[1922?]

Part of Eric Parker fonds

Item is a negative showing the alter of the Gyantse monastery. There is a large Buddha sculpture behind the alter, and ornate carvings on the wall situated behind the Buddha sculpture.

Gyantse

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Item
[1922?]

Part of Eric Parker fonds

Item is a negative showing several buildings in the village of Gyantse.

Monastery Gyantse

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Item
[1922?]

Part of Eric Parker fonds

Item is a negative showing Gyantse's main temple.

Vera (Kamchi) and Minnie, Yutang 1923

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Item
1923

Part of Eric Parker fonds

Item is a negative showing a two women, Vera Kamchi and Minnie Parker, standing in front of a tall wooden fence. The fence is in front of a large house with snow on the roof. There is a mountain covered in snow in the background.

New barracks (Sepoy's) Chumbi summer view

4-02-a033577
Item
1923

Part of Eric Parker fonds

Item is a negative showing the new army barracks situated in the Chumbi valley. There is a river in the forefront and mountains in the background.

View of city from above

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Item
[?]

Part of Eric Parker fonds

Item is a photograph showing the city, photographed from a nearby hill.

View of houses built against a hillside

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Item
[?]

Part of Eric Parker fonds

Item is a photograph showing houses built on the hillside.

New barracks (Sepoy's) Chumbi winter view

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Item
[?]

Part of Eric Parker fonds

Item is a negative showing the new army barracks situated in the Chumbi valley. There are snow covered mountains in the background.

Dak bung[a]low

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Item
[?]

Part of Eric Parker fonds

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.