Amir Khan, the Mission Cook

Amir Khan, the Mission Cook

2001.35.347.1 (Print Black & White)

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Key Information

Photographer

Frederick Spencer Chapman

Collection

Evan Yorke Nepean

Date of Photo

September 3rd 1936?

Named Person

Amir Khan

Region

Lhasa > Dekyi Lingka

Accession number

2001.35.347.1

Image Dimensions

71 x 104 mm

The Mission cook , Amir Khan, with a turban

Further Information

Photographic Process

Print silver

Date Acquired

Loaned August 2002

Donated by

Judy Goldthorp

Expedition

British Diplomatic Mission to Lhasa 1936-37

Photo also owned by

Lady Nepean

Previous Catologue Number

CS.9 [view film roll]

Other Information

Notes on print/mount - 'The cook; ink no: 42; pencil no: CS/9 ; blue no:'; from an envelope marked 'Personalities' [KC 14/08/2006]

Manual Catalogues -


Manual Catalogues - Caption in Chapman's hand-written list of negatives made whilst on the Mission to Lhasa, 1936-7 [See PRM Manuscripts Collection]: 'Mir Khan. Semi-close' [MS 14/08/2006]

Other Information - Related Images


Other Information - Related Images: Images prefixed with 'CS.' taken on the British Mission to Lhasa 1936-37 comprise a group of negatives containing images of patients from Dr Morgan’s hospital, Mir Khan, curio sellers, bookshops, street scenes, Jokhang, willows and Chapman. They seem to have been taken on or around September 3rd 1936 [MS 14/08/2006]

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Amir Khan, the Mission Cook" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_2001.35.347.1.html>.

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