Key Information

Photographer

Sir Charles Bell or Rabden Lepcha?

Collection

Sir Charles Bell

Date of Photo

1920-1921

Region

Lhasa

Accession number

1998.285.181.1

Image Dimensions

120 x 163 mm

A picture in a Tibetan medical dispensary depicting the various plants which can be used as drugs.

Further Information

Photographic Process

Negative glass plate gelatin , Negative Half Plate

Date Acquired

Donated 1983

Donated by

St Antony's College, Oxford.

Copy difference

Lantern

Expedition

Sir Charles Bell's Mission to Lhasa 1920-21

Photo also owned by

Royal Central Asiatic Society

Previous Catologue Number

See H.159

Previous Pitt Rivers Museum Number

BL.H.159a

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Picture from Mentsipa dispensary, Lhasa" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.285.181.1.html>.

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Picture from Mentsipa dispensary, Lhasa