Yak hide boat

Yak hide boat

1998.286.112 (Glass negative)

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Key Information

Photographer

Rabden Lepcha?

Collection

Sir Charles Bell

Date of Photo

1920-1921

Region

Lhasa > Dekyi Lingka

Accession number

1998.286.112

Image Dimensions

78 x 103

Yak skin boat, kowa, in the Dekyi Lingka, where Bell and his party stayed in 1920-21. The wooden supports are willow, and the rope round the central wooden support is of yak hair. Willow trees in background.

Further Information

Photographic Process

Negative Quarter Plate

Date Acquired

Donated 1983

Donated by

St Antony's College, Oxford

Copy difference

Notches on right side

Expedition

Sir Charles Bell's Mission to Lhasa 1920-21

Previous Catologue Number

Q.101

Previous Pitt Rivers Museum Number

BL.Q.101

Related Collections

British Library, Oriental and India Office Collections

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Yak hide boat" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.286.112.html>.

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