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Description: | View at the banks of the Beas river in Kullu valley, taken by Samuel Bourne in the 1860s. A mussock is a normally a leather water bag, consisting of the entire skin of a large goat, carried by a ‘bhishti’, a domestic servant who supplied the family with water. But in this photograph these seem to be inflated bullock skins used to cross the water. Bourne's dark-tent is pictured under the tree, as is Dr George Rankin Playfair, a surgeon knowledgeable in natural history and the latest theories of glacial movement, who accompanied Bourne on his third Himalayan trip. | License: | http://www.bl.uk/services/copy/permission.html | Rights holder: | British Library | Subjects: | Rivers Water Transport Mountain Views Cartography And Topography Leisure And The Arts Domestic Life Servants Science And Technology Landscapes Rivers and waterways People And Society | Source: | Collect Britain | Creator: | Bourne, Samuel | Identifier: | http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personal... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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