Washing for gold [Thok Dalung]. Photographer: Calvert, Hubert
Scope & Content:
View of miner at work between two channels of water (marked in pencil, 'branch channel' and 'main channel'). With an explanatory pencilled note: 'A small channel with a good drop is lined with cloth and then with stones, the earth is slowly raked into this.'
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Group portrait of gold washers on the bank of the Indus, with the tools of their trade laid out on the rock behind them.