Nyemo valley with harvested crops

Nyemo valley with harvested crops

2001.59.13.20.1 (Film negative)

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Key Information

Photographer

Hugh E. Richardson

Collection

Hugh Richardson

Date of Photo

1946

Region

Tolung Valley Region > Nyemo zhu

Accession number

2001.59.13.20.1

Image Dimensions

85 x 60 mm

View of Nyemo valley with fields with harvested crops and mountains in the distance. The photograph is taken from the flat roof of a house. A ritual roof decoration topped with a trident may be seen in the bottom right hand corner.

Further Information

Activity

Harvesting

Photographic Process

Negative film nitrate

Date Acquired

Donated August 2001

Donated by

The executors of the estate of Hugh E. Richardson

Expedition

Hugh E. Richardson

Manual Catalogues -

Manual Catalogues - Notes on negative album - 'NYEMO. SAMYE. YARLUNG. RGYAL.' is written on the cover of this blue negative album in white in Richardson's hand. [KC 24/3/2006]

Manual Catalogues -


Manual Catalogues - Notes on Blue negative album index - No. 20. 'do.' [NYEMO ZHU].

Manual Catalogues -


Manual Catalogues - Richardson's handlist: 'Blue Album. [Nos.] 18-20. 'Snye-mo Gzhu'.

Other Information - Background: Richardson mentions journeying through Nyemo on a journey from Lhasa to Gyantse in 1946 by way of Tolung and Nyemo. High Peaks, Pure Earth , H. E. Richardson, London, Serindia Publications, 1998, p. 730.












For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Nyemo valley with harvested crops" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_2001.59.13.20.1.html>.

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