Key Information

Photographer

Sir Charles Bell or Rabden Lepcha

Collection

Sir Charles Bell

Date of Photo

1920-1921

Region

Yamdrok Tso Region > Yamdrok Tso

Accession number

1998.285.50

Image Dimensions

120 x 163 mm

View looking down the Yamdrok Lake.

Further Information

Photographic Process

Negative glass plate gelatin , Negative Half Plate

Date Acquired

Donated 1983

Donated by

St Antony's College, Oxford.

Expedition

Sir Charles Bell's Mission to Lhasa 1920-21

Photo also owned by

Royal Central Asiatic Society

Previous Catologue Number

H.48

Previous Pitt Rivers Museum Number

BL.H.48

Manual Catalogues -

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 48 (z) A stretch of the Yamdro Tso"

Other Information - Setting

Other Information - Setting: Bell travelled on this route in 1920-21 on his way to and from Lhasa [MS 21/9/2004]

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Yamdrok Lake" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.285.50.html>.

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