Genre: Landscape Photography View of saltpetre collector's tent, pitched in front of the river, with the man himself standing beside his working equipment. A pencilled note identifies the 'little cloth pans into which the sand is put.' This is presumably located in the Gartok plain, onto which ...
Genre: Landscape Photography General view of the miners' encampment, with mountains beyond. Calvert stayed several days inspecting the gold-digging activities at Dalung, which he considered 'one of the most interesting places I have seen in Tibet' (f. 108). On 30 August he notes: 'Took some mor...
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.'