Beggars in Ragyapa quarter of Lhasa

Beggars in Ragyapa quarter of Lhasa

2001.35.396.34.4 (Album Print black & white)

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Key Information

Photographer

Evan Yorke Nepean

Collection

Evan Yorke Nepean

Date of Photo

September - December 1936

Region

Lhasa > Ragyapa camp

Accession number

2001.35.396.34.4

Image Dimensions

90 x 58 mm

A beggar in the centre of the image, flanked by a crowd of child onlookers. This photograph according to Nepean was taken in the quarter of Lhasa occupied by 'body cutters' or Ragyapa whose responsibility it was to dispose ritually of the bodies of the deceased

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

This Image also appears in another collection

2001.35.181.1

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Beggars in Ragyapa quarter of Lhasa" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_2001.35.396.34.4.html>.

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