Photograph captioned: ‘Ladak women’, and showing a group of women in traditional dress and headwear sitting besides an ornate tent in amongst trees and mountains. The image was taken, probably by Capt Edward Francis Chapman, when he accompanied Thomas Douglas Forsyth on a diplomatic and trade mission to Yarkand (Yarkant) in Western China in 1873.  No 20 on the handwritten list included with the collection.

From a group of 33 photographs by Capt (later General Sir) Edward Francis Chapman attached to the Yarkand Embassy to China, and also in Kashmir, India, 1873.