IDNO

DG.144925.SHP

Description

"Ken Shepheard admires a large Budha [sic Buddha] in the "Red Idol" gorge. 20 August '38."

Place

S Asia; Tibet; Kangmar; Sakang

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Ken Shepheard

Photographer

Jack, Archibald (Archie) Frederick Maclean (Leuit., R.E.)

Collector / Expedition

Date

20 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.23,
"20 August 1938
0800 on to Sanang via the Red Idol Gorge - one of the battlefields of the 1905 Mission.
Many ruined villages and forts on way as there have been for last three days.
Clumps of trees -- willows, larchs and birch -- make pleasant change of scenery which has otherwise been rather like Waziristan, but all much bigger.
Potatoes, wheat and roots (beet root?) as well as barley, mustard and peas at Sanang. All this valley very fertile, plenty of grazing and many camp sites.
Khan Gul has ”chukkars” for last two miles, but temperature normal and pulse down to 96. Gave him 10 grains quinine and a dose of Epsom salts." [JD 26/01/2020]