photograph, photograph
Accession Number

NAM.1957-07-12-12

Description

Photograph of the Nubra Valley, Ladakh, from the village of Panamick looking South East to the lake and mountains. Some Buddhist chieftains or worshippers can be seen at a temple in the foreground. 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 31 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.