Key Information

Photographer

Rabden Lepcha

Collection

Sir Charles Bell

Date of Photo

1920-1921

Region

Lhasa > Barkhor

Accession number

1998.285.293.1

Image Dimensions

120 x 163 mm

Shops, awnings. Prayer flags on top of buildings. Possibly on the east side of the Barkhor in central Lhasa

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

Revised Photographer

Rabden Lepcha?

Previous Catologue Number

H.267

Previous Pitt Rivers Museum Number

BL.H.267

Published

'The People of Tibet', Sir Charles Bell, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1928 [view list of illustrations]

Manual Catalogues -

Manual Catalogues - Bell's List of Illustrations entry: "[No. of chapter] L. [Subject of Chapter] Lhasa [Subject of Illustration] H.267 (an) Street in Lhasa. Chorten in background. Some Nepalese in middle distance, on right. [Remarks] L.246 (Y in L)"

Contemporary Publication -

Contemporary Publication - Published in 'The People of Tibet', Bell, C. A., Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1928, facing p.131:"A street in Lhasa. Shops in foreground, cho-ten in middle distance." [MS 10/9/2004]

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Lhasa street along the Barkhor" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.285.293.1.html>.

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Lhasa street along the Barkhor