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61. Photo 920/1(61)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 920/1(61)
Title:
A Kirghiz bridge (Karatash River). Ladies had just been calling on us: the one in front was carrying 3-month old twins. The 'road' goes along the face of the cliff in the background! Photographer: Skrine, Sir Clarmont Percival
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Duplicate of print 60. [Gelatin silver print, 295x216mm]. Subjects = bridges; river scenes; Skrine Collection Location = China; Karatash River; Karatash Valley; Khanterek; Xinjiang
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1923
Extent:
1 item

62. Photo 920/1(62)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 920/1(62)
Title:
Tobogganing yaks down over a snow cornice, Merki Dawan (16,500 ft.). Photographer: Skrine, Sir Clarmont Percival
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Kirghiz guide leading a yak through deep snow at the head of the pass, with another guide bringing up the rear. [Gelatin silver print, 216x292mm]. Subjects = animals; mountain scenery; Skrine Collection; snow scenes; yaks
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Jul 1922
Extent:
1 item

63. Photo 920/1(63)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 920/1(63)
Title:
Arrival of the Mir's yaks at Lopzag. Photographer: Skrine, Sir Clarmont Percival
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View of campsite in valley, with yaks arriving and group of porters in background. The Mir is presumably the Mir of Hunza. Precise location unidentified. [Gelatin silver print, 293x218mm]. Subjects = animals; camps; mountain scenery; Skrine Collection; yaks
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1922
Extent:
1 item

64. Photo 920/1(64)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 920/1(64)
Title:
Caravan laden with 'Kham' (Kashgar cotton cloth) between Goma and Khotan on the ancient 'Silk Road'. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Laden caravan of Bactrian camels in the desert. The reverse of the print is dated 1925: if this is correct, the photograph cannot have been taken by Skrine, who left Kashgar on home leave in late 1924. [Gelatin silver print, 296x105mm]. Subjects = animals; camels...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1925
Extent:
1 item

65. Photo 920/1(65)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 920/1(65)
Title:
Caravan laden with 'Kham' (Kashgar cotton cloth) between Goma and Khotan on the ancient 'Silk Road'. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Duplicate of print 64. [Gelatin silver print, 276x96mm]. Subjects = animals; camels; caravans; pack animals; Skrine Collection
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1925
Extent:
1 item

66. Photo 920/1(66)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 920/1(66)
Title:
Our caravan in the lower Karatash Valley. Photographer: Skrine, Sir Clarmont Percival
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View of laden camel caravan, with cliffs in the background. [Sepia-toned print, 296x96mm]. Subjects = animals; camels; caravans; pack animals; Skrine Collection Location = China; Karatash Valley; Xinjiang
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1922-1924
Extent:
1 item

67. Photo 920/1(67)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 920/1(67)
Title:
A tarantass (with D. [Doris Skrine] in it) crossing the Takla Makan Desert, Khotan-Yarkand road. Photographer: Skrine, Sir Clarmont Percival
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View of the tarantass (a four-wheeled pony-drawn carriage) and a group of men with ponies in the desert. [Gelatin silver print, 249x145mm]. Subjects = carriages; road transport; Skrine Collection; tarantasses; transport Location = China; Taklamakan Shamo; Xinji...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1922-1924
Extent:
1 item

68. Photo 920/1(68)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 920/1(68)
Title:
Our baggage-ponies watering at pools among the jungles of the Tarim River, Aqsu-Maralbashi road. Photographer: Skrine, Sir Clarmont Percival
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography [Gelatin silver print, mounted on card, 284x173mm]. Subjects = horses; pack animals; Skrine Collection; water supplies
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1922-1924
Extent:
1 item

69. Photo 920/1(69)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 920/1(69)
Title:
'How we took the pelican to the wilderness.' Photographer: Skrine, Sir Clarmont Percival
Scope & Content:
Showing the pelican being released at the riverside, with Doris Skrine standing in the background. The incident, in which Skrine was given the inconvenient present of a pelican by Amban of Boghaz Langar, and which then had to be surreptitiously freed, is recounted in his 'Chinese Central Asia' (...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Apr 1924
Extent:
1 item

70. Photo 920/1(70)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 920/1(70)
Title:
[Party walking in the hills, (?)Hunza.] Photographer: Skrine, Sir Clarmont Percival
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography [Gelatin silver print, mounted on card, 204x260mm]. Subjects = mountain scenery; Skrine Collection Location = Hunza; India/Pakistan disputed territory; Kashmir
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1922-1924
Extent:
1 item