1998.285.40 (Glass negative)
1998.285.40 (Glass negative)
Sir Charles Bell or Rabden
Sir Charles Bell
1904-1918?
Chumbi Valley Region > Chomolhari (from Phari)
1998.285.40
120 x 163 mm
Negative glass plate gelatin , Negative Half Plate
Donated 1983
St Antony's College, Oxford.
Copy Neg
Sir Charles Bell
Royal Central Asiatic Society
H.39
BL.H.39
'Tibet Past & Present', Sir Charles Bell, Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1924 [view list of illustrations]
Manual Catalogues - Bell's List of Illustrations entry: "[No. of chapter] III. [Subject of Chapter] Mountains, Rivers, Lakes, Climate, Rainfall and Trade Routes. [Subject of illustration] H 39 (e) Chomolhari, from Phari. [Where placed - book page] I, 1"
Contemporary Publication - Published in 'Tibet Past & Present', Bell, C. A., Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924, facing p.1: "Mt Chomolhari at the head of the Chumbi Valley" [MS 7/9/2004]
Other Information - Description: "For the villages situated where cold or lack of sunshine prevents the crops from ripening, existence is hard, though to the Tibetan himself it is nothing out of the common. Such a one is 'Frozen Water' (Chu-kya) on the Pa-ri plain at the foot of the Cho-mo Lhari, a snow mountain towering nine thousand feet above it. The villages subsist by means of their sheep, yaks, and dri . They have also a few fields of barley, which never ripens. So they sell the straw with its unripe grain, to the traders passing through to India and back again. The traders give this to their ponies and mules; it is greatly prized as fodder and commands a high price." 'The People of Tibet', Bell, C. A., Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1928, pp. 59-60
For Citation use:
The Tibet Album.
"Chomolhari from Phari"
05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum.
<http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.285.40.html>.
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