IDNO

DG.121625.OLT

Description

View of Leh: Mani wall and palace; Mani is the name of a kind of prayer and these, you see them all over Ladakh and Tibet, are walls with a single prayer called Mani carved on them. They come in rotine wall.; from tape transcript A/B 5

Place

E Asia; C Asia; ?China; ?Kazakhstan; ?Mongolia

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Lattimore, Owen

Collector / Expedition

Date

circa 1928 - 1938

Collection Name

Owen Lattimore Collection

Source

Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Harvard College, Massachusetts

Format

Digital File

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Source: Owen Lattimore bequeathed his original photographic collection to the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Harvard University, Massachusetts, along with Intellectual Property Rights. As part of the bequest, a set of digital copies, “together with a non-exclusive license to use them for educational and scholarly purposes” was provided to the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. [JD 3/3/2013]