IDNO

F.126639.PAT

Description

On listing inside reel: Films from Peabody Museum, U.S.A.
Third Reel. There is no obvious connection between this reel and the two preceding ones, but it probably consists of further scenes photographed en route from Bombay to Kashmir (see titles for first part of first reel).
Masked dancing & ceremony at Hemis Monastery, Ladakh. [manuscript added in black ink]
A glimpse of medieval India. Temples; nodes of transport; camels; bullocks; elephants; craftsmen; ancient cities.
The Waziris, an Afghan nomadic tribe, returning to its home pastures. People on camels (very short section).
Village life in the Salt Range, Punjab. A man walking. Girls carrying water jars on their heads. A school? A dance.
30,000 Mohammedans celebrate the Id-Festival at Delhi. Crowd seen chiefly at a distance.
Hindu Rituals around the funeral pyre.
The marble glory of 'the Fort' at Delhi.
Agra and the Taj Mahal." [typed text]

Place

S Asia; Pakistan; West Punjab; Karakoram Pass [British India]

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Archaeological Survey of India

Collector / Expedition

Yale-Cambridge India Expedition of 1935; Peabody Museum

Date

1935

Collection Name

Paterson Collection

Source

?Paterson, Thomas Thomson

Format

Cine Film

Primary Documentation

Other Information

F.126637.PAT - F.126639.PAT were found unaccessioned in the Photo Store, Shelf Q.1.

Expedition / Collector: The Yale-Cambridge India Expedition of 1935 was sponsored by the Peabody Museum and led by Dr Helmut de Terra together with Pere P. Teilhard de Chardin, a noted French palreontologist, and Dr T. T. Paterson to investigate the glacial cycles in Kashmir and the associated human remains in the periglacial area known as Potwar in the West Punjab, which after the partition of the country was within the borders of Pakistan. [JD 5/10/2014]

Bibliographical Reference: De Terra, H. and T.T.
Paterson, Studies on the Ice Age in India and associated human cultures.
(Washington, D.C., 1939.) [JD 5/10/2014]

MAA Exhibition: Extracts of films F.126637.PAT - F.126639.PAT are included in the World Archaeology exhibitions in the Andrews Gallery, with the following caption:
"The Yale-Cambridge expedition produced an early ‘cine film’ of archaeological excavations and surveys within South Asia. Sponsored by the Peabody Museum, the film allows a glimpse of the restoration projects of the Archaeological Survey of India.
16 mm, 3 reels, MAA, 1935." [JD 5/10/2014]