Former soldier in Gyantse Bazaar

Former soldier in Gyantse Bazaar

BMH.F.45.1 (Film negative)

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Key Information

Photographer

Arthur Hopkinson

Collection

A. J. Hopkinson

Date of Photo

1927 - 1928

Region

Gyantse > Bazaar >

Accession number

BMH.F.45.1

Image Dimensions

117 x 85

Hopkinson states that this muleteer surprised him in Gyantse bazaar by giving a military salute [see Notes]. Here he gives a more traditional greeting. It emerged that he had formerly been a soldier in the Tibetan army at Lhasa. Here he is seen wearing hide clothes with a textile belt from which a large number of implements are hanging

Further Information

Photographic Process

Negative film nitrate

Expedition

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

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Former soldier in Gyantse Bazaar" 05 Dec. 2006. The British Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_BMH.F.45.1.html>.

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