![Ladakus Border of Thibet {Ladhakis Border of Tibet]](https://www.paperjewels.org/sites/default/files/styles/square_thumbnail/public/slides/ladakhis_0.jpg?itok=H83hek6v "Ladakus Border of Thibet {Ladhakis Border of Tibet]")
[Original caption] Ladakus, on the Thibetan border. These men, who are in reality travelling merchants or hawkers, are natives of Thibet, and during the summer months they journey via Kashmir into the Indian provinces.
[Original caption] The Chettya are one of the trading castes of India whose mercantile activities take them far afield.
An unusual postcard in the use of so much black, which beautifully brings out the portrait of this man, his beard and clothing (black was expensive for printers due to the amount of ink consumed). Due to better economic prospects in Sri Lanka, during
