View from Dochen

View from Dochen

BMH.C.94.1 (Film negative)

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Key Information

Photographer

Arthur Hopkinson

Collection

A. J. Hopkinson

Date of Photo

July 22nd 1927?

Region

Khangmar Region > Dochen

Accession number

BMH.C.94.1

Image Dimensions

85 x 109

A view of mountains taken from Dochen taken in July 1927. What may be the dak bungalow can be seen in the middle distance. Mount Chomolhari can be seen in the top right of the image. A stone wall can be seen on the lower left of the image

Further Information

Photographic Process

Negative film nitrate

Expedition

A. J. Hopkinson's Tour of Duty as British Trade Agent, Gyantse, 1927-28

Other Information

In Negative - There is a notch in the right hand side of the negative where the edge has been cut very crudely when dividing the film into frames [MS 13/07/2006]

Manual Catalogues -


Manual Catalogues - [Caption in A. J. Hopkinson's negative album 'Tibet C']: 'Mountains from Dochen' [MS 28/04/2006]

Other Information - Dates


Other Information - Dates: Hopkinson left Gyantse on July 17th 1927 to travel back to Yatung. The photographs in this negative album wallet seem on the whole to have been taken chronologically between March and July 1927, suggesting that this photograph was taken en route to Yatung. For dating of image, see A. J. Hopkinson Archive, OIOC British Library, Mss Eur D998/54, Journal Letters from Gyantse and Various Camps, 1927-28, commencing July 19th 1927, Camp Samada, page 5 [MS 13/07/2006]

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "View from Dochen" 05 Dec. 2006. The British Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_BMH.C.94.1.html>.

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