This is the phurba (phur ba; ritual dagger) that, according to legend, Tashi Namgyal (b.1640?) stuck into the ground at Mimi to create a reliable spring. Tashi Namgyal is one of the first of the Ngadag lineage to settle in Sama. His act symbolically…
Photograph with written note: John Berryman James Dickey, 1957: December; Berryman family photo in Sevilla; he writes to Dickey to wish him the best and to thank him for his letter.