Audrey and Harry Hawthorn Library and Archives

4-02-a033662
Item
[1922]

Item is a negative showing a group of men on horseback. The men are wearing wide brim hats and some appear to be carrying slings of arrows.

Competitors await their turn in the Gyantse shooting competition

4-02-a033663
Item
[1922]

Part of Eric Parker fonds

Item is a negative showing a close up of the men described in the previous photograph (a033662).

Crowd gathered in a plaza

4-02-a033855
Item
[?]

Part of Eric Parker fonds

Item is a photograph taken from above looking down onto a crowd.

Dak bung[a]low

4-02-a033561
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.

Dak bungalow

4-02-a033725
Item
[192-?]

Part of Eric Parker fonds

Item is a negative showing a dak bungalow situated in a snowy mountain landscape.

[Dak bungalow in a snowy mountain landscape]

4-02-a033726
Item
[192-?]

Part of Eric Parker fonds

Item is a negative showing the same dak bungalow in the previous negative (negative a033725) but from a slightly different angle. The image shows dak bungalow situated in a snowy mountain landscape.

Dalai Lama + sectaries [sic] 1912

4-02-a033533
Item
1910

Part of Eric Parker fonds

Item is a photograph showing Thub-bstan-rgya-mtsho, or the Dalai Lama XIII, sitting in the centre with four men standing behind him. This photograph was taken at the Yutang trade agency when the Dalai Lama was going into self-imposed exile.

Dalia [sic] Lama bless citizens of Chumbie 1912

4-02-a033534
Item
1912

Part of Eric Parker fonds

Item is a photograph showing Thub-bstan-rgya-mtsho, or His Holiness the Dalai Lama XIII on the far left blessing citizens at the Yutang trade agency on his return to Lhasa. The Dalai Lama can be seen on the left at the very back of the gathering.