IDNO

DG.122126.OLT

Description

Dalgleish cairn, Karakorum Pass; Just below the pass, on the Chinese side, is a cairn with stamped-cotton Tibetan prayer flags on it, and in the nick of the pass a cairn, now falling to ruin, put up in the memory of Andrew Dalgleish the Scottish merchant adventurer and early explorer of Central Asia who was murdered on the pass by a Pathan [HT, text, p 341]

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]