IDNO

DG.144920.SHP

Description

"Leaving Samada we set out for Kangmar and passed a long chorten full of prayer wheels. 19 August '38."

Place

S Asia; Tibet; Samada; Kangmar

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Shepheard, Ken

Collector / Expedition

Date

19 August 1938

Collection Name

Shepheard Collection

Source

Shepheard Rogers, Patricia

Format

Album Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Related Archive: Noted in Shepheard's diary 'Some Notes of Ken Shepheard on his expedition to Lhasa, Tibet, in September - October 1938' p.22,
"19 August 1938
... Farewells and away to Kangmar 14 miles down the valley.
Oh -- for canoes or a punt; but would we have got round the corners and crashed at the various bridges? Dry stone piers usually on grassy banks and stone slab and timber pathways -- arches often narrow and seldom more than 3’ head room.
Sent a birthday cable home from Kangmar by telephone to Gyantse at 1700 hrs.
Khan Gul ill. Temp 99.5. Pulse 120º, Gave him 10 grains of quinine.
Chowkidar says river only a trickle in dry weather (now some 5,000,000 galls./hr ?), but always some water." [JD 26/01/2020]