Audrey and Harry Hawthorn Library and Archives

Tending fields with oxen

4-02-a033730
Item
[192-?]

Part of Eric Parker fonds

Item is a photograph showing a person tending a field with a hoe being pulled by two oxen.

Temple shrine

4-02-a033644
Item
[1922?]

Part of Eric Parker fonds

Item is a negative showing a shrine in the Gyantse monastery.

Temple alter, large prayer wheel far R

4-02-a033642
Item
[1922?]

Part of Eric Parker fonds

Item is a negative showing the alter of the Gyantse monastery. There are three Buddha sculptures as well as ornate wall carvings behind the alter. There is also a large prayer wheel to the right of the alter.

Temple alter

4-02-a033643
Item
[1922?]

Part of Eric Parker fonds

Item is a negative showing the alter of the Gyantse monastery. There are three Buddhist sculptures as well as ornate wall carvings behind the alter. There is also is storage space for the Pacha (sacred Texts) to the left of the alter and a small prayer circle to the right of the alter.

Teesta Valley, on the journey up to Tibet

4-02-a033545
Item
[?]

Part of Eric Parker fonds

Item is a photograph of a landscape showing the Teesta valley and river.

Teesta Valley

4-02-a033753
Item
[192-?]

Part of Eric Parker fonds

Item is a print of fenced buildings in the foreground; trees and mountain in background

Teesta Bridge, leading into the hamlet of Teesta

4-02-a033546
Item
[?]

Part of Eric Parker fonds

Item is a photograph showing a village next to a river with a bridge in the foreground.

Takin

4-02-a033685
Item
[192-?]

Part of Eric Parker fonds

Item is a negative showing a takin. Parker notes that this takin was live captured for Colonel F.M. Bailey and shipped to the London Zoo.

Suspension bridge across a river in the Chumbi Valley

4-02-a033579
Item
[?]

Part of Eric Parker fonds

Item is a negative showing a bridge crossing a river in the Chumbi valley. There are mountains in the background.

Summer view of Yutang village

4-02-a033575
Item
[?]

Part of Eric Parker fonds

Item is a negative showing a dirt road running down the village of Yutang. There are people walking along the road, and there are wooden structures on the left side of the road. There are mountains in the background.

Stone wall with pathway

4-02-a033700
Item
[192-?]

Part of Eric Parker fonds

Item is a negative showing a stone wall with a pathway leading up it. There are two buildings visible in the background.

Speech notes

4-03-03
File
1961

Part of Eric Parker fonds

The ‘Speech Notes’ consist of handwritten notes on Tibet written for a talk Col. Parker was to make to the Royal Overseas League in Victoria, B.C., on 8 May 1961. Included are notes on Tibet’s history, population, Parker’s journeys through the country, Gyantze, Lhasa, religion, trade, troops, and the ‘wheel of life’ among other topics. A second set of notes gives a brief outline of his military life (most in India) up to 1947.

ref # 4-3-3

Soldiers standing in rows

4-02-a033884
Item
[?]

Part of Eric Parker fonds

Item is a photograph showing rows of soldiers standing at attention with riffles.

Soldiers & villagers preparing for shoot [competition]

4-02-a033661
Item
[1922]

Part of Eric Parker fonds

Item is a negative showing a group of people, some on horseback and some standing around the horses. Many of the men on horseback have a sling of arrows on their backs. A building and mountains are visible in the background.