IDNO

DG.122159.OLT

Description

Quruq Davan (Dry Pass) (below Umlung); view of built up trail along very steep mountain pass; In some places... [this pass]...because it gets above the water and holds no ice is built over sheer precipices, in other places it is blasted out of living rock over still sheerer drops. [test 350-351 HT]

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]