Mss Eur F197/36(13)

Genre: Portrait Photography

Group photographed in the garden of Mr Barstow's house, Murree. Shaw and Scully are seated on carpets in the centre in front of a Kurghiz yurt or tent, wearing Turkick costume. Their Guides escort stands behind, while servants, guides and other retainers are arranged in two lines on either side of the main figures, as if in durbar. A hawk stands on a perch in the foreground, beside the antlers of a stag and the horns of a mountain sheep. This elaborate tableau is mentioned in a note beside the print: 'Robert left Yarkund on his return journey 29th July 1875 and for the last time we welcomed him back to Murree 18th October. Bishop Milman, with his chaplain Mr Jacobb, was then staying with us, so Robert took up his quarters in Mr Barstow's house, then empty. The photograph opposite shows the party after their return from what I called Robert's trip to Yarkund. The old Bishop laughed and said 'No one but a sister would call such a journey a trip. Robert thus describes the Kirghiz 'Yourt' or tent which he had pitched in the garden...In front, is his fine eagle, of which he brought down 3, each carried by a man on horseback on his arm with a support from the saddle. The hoprns are those of the Bara singha, which is supposed to get a new [illegible] every year up to 12 (bara). The front horns are of the ovis poli.'

[Albumen print, spotted, 274x205mm].

Subjects = Europeans in local dress; Younghusband Collection

Location = Murree; Pakistan; Punjab; Punjab (Pakistan)