1998.285.74.1 (Glass negative)
Raw Image
Rabden Lepcha?
Sir Charles Bell
February 6th 1921?
Lhasa >
1998.285.74.1
120 x 163 mm
Riding
Negative glass plate gelatin , Negative Half Plate
Donated 1983
St Antony's College, Oxford.
Lantern
Sir Charles Bell's Mission to Lhasa 1920-21
Royal Central Asiatic Society
Rabden Lepcha?
H.67
BL.H.67
British Library, Oriental and India Office Collections
'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] IV. [Subject of Chapter] History up to 1900. [Subject of illustration] H67 (v) An old time cavalry man. Diary IX, 24. [Remarks] L.35 (D.L.) [lantern slide 35]"
Other Information - Related Images: This photograph appears to have been taken in the same setting as 1998.285.69 & 1998.285.70 "H.64 (r) Foot soldier, old style."
Contemporary Publication - Published in 'Tibet Past & Present', Bell, C. A., Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924, facing p.29:"A mounted soldier, old style"
For Citation use:
The Tibet Album.
"Cavalry soldier on horse "
05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum.
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