Key Information

Photographer

Rabden Lepcha?

Collection

Sir Charles Bell

Date of Photo

1920-1921

Region

Lhasa

Accession number

1998.286.103.1

Image Dimensions

78 x 103

Shop in Lhasa selling meat and vegetables in baskets. Right, centre, the shop owner; extreme right, a customer

Further Information

Photographic Process

Negative Quarter Plate

Date Acquired

Donated 1983

Donated by

St Antony's College, Oxford

Copy difference

Lantern Notches on right side

Expedition

Sir Charles Bell's Mission to Lhasa 1920-21

Previous Catologue Number

Q.92

Previous Pitt Rivers Museum Number

BL.Q.92

Related Collections

British Library, Oriental and India Office Collections

Published

'Tibet Past & Present', Sir Charles Bell, Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1924 [view list of illustrations]

Manual Catalogues -

Manual Catalogues - Bell's List of Illustrations entry: "[No. of chapter] XXIV. [Subject of Chapter] Food and Drink [Subject of Illustration] Q92 (w) Shop in Lhasa selling meat and vegetables. Right, centre, the proprietress; extreme right, a customer. [Where placed - book page] I, 182. [Remarks] L. 116 (Y in L)"

Contemporary Publication -

Contemporary Publication - Published in 'Tibet Past & Present', Bell, C. A., Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924, facing p.182:"Vegetable and meat shop, Lhasa"

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Shop in Lhasa selling meat and vegetables" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.286.103.1.html>.

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Shop in Lhasa selling meat and vegetables