IDNO

DG.122780.OLT

Description

Below Sanju Dawan (Davan), Kirghiz girl weaving; The loom was made sketchily of sticks, braced with ropes of twisted wool, but we could not watch the weaving of the colored design because the girl, who had on a high mumpy headgear, like a giotered mitre, fled squealing at the sight of us (text, HT 327) (from N34994).

On Catalogue Card for duplicate print P.5694.ACH1: “Kirghiz woman weaving , foot of Sanju pass, beginning of Karakoram [sic Karakorum] caravan route from Chinese Turkistan to Ladakh.”

The Kirghiz woman in the photo appears to be weaving on an ermek (back strap loom). On her head is probably an elechek (high hat) although she appears to have covered it in another cloth. [CAD
1/9/2007, from record P.5694.ACH1, JD 9/30/2014]

Place

E Asia; C Asia; China; India; Xinjiang; Jammu and Kashmir; Ladakh; Karakorum pass; Sanju pass [Chinese Turkestan; Chinese Turkistan; Sanju Davan]

Cultural Affliation

Kirghiz

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]