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Peter van Ham & Aglaja Stirn
With a group of Chakma- dancers in Tripura 1997.
Peter van Ham and Aglaja Stirn's joint public life has been marked by numerous publications, lectures and photo exhibitions on their expeditions to regions, which till their research ventures had been some of the last remaining white spots on the world´s maps.

Thus in the 90´s of the twentieth century the Indo-Tibetan border regions - both in the Western Himalayas and in the Northeastern hill regions - became second homes to Peter van Ham and Aglaja Stirn. There they were able to discover and document in depth art, cultures and traditions, which till date had been practically unknown to the Western world.

Four internationally published books in various editions containing app. 1200 photographs and multivisional slide presentations in the entire German speaking Europe are the fruits borne from their efforts.

Their undertakings have been supported by none less than His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet, the Archaeological Survey of India as well as the UNESCO and they have been state guests to various Asian countries.
With a Konyak Naga headhunter
in Nagaland 2002.
With the monks
of Tawang monastery
in Arunachal Pradesh 1998.