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1998.285.485 (Glass negative)
1998.285.485 (Glass negative)
Henry Martin
Sir Charles Bell
1911
Chumbi Valley Region > Yatung
1998.285.485
83 x 136 mm
Negative glass plate gelatin , Copy Negative
Donated 1983
St. Antony's College, Oxford
Copy Neg
Sir Charles Bell
Sir Charles Bell; Royal Central Asiatic Society
P.174
BL.P.174
British Library, Oriental and India Office Collections
1998.293.14
'The People of Tibet', Sir Charles Bell, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1928 [view list of illustrations]
Manual Catalogues - Bell's List of Illustrations entry: "[No. of chapter] XXI. [Subject of Chapter] The Women [Subject of Illustration] P.174 (gl) (k) Laughing at a joke'
In Negative - The photographer's initials 'H.M.' are visible in the lower right-hand corner of the image, having been marked on the original negative. [PG 13/10/2003]
Other Information - Related Images: There is a print of this image in the PRM's Macdonald Collection [1998.293.14], described as 'Commissariat/ agent & servants/ Yatung/ Circa 1911' (from label on reverse). [PG 13/10/2003]
Contemporary Publication - Published in 'The People of Tibet', Bell, C. A., Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1928, facing p.174: 'A joke's mixed reception/ Indian official seated. Behind him two Indian men and one Tibetan. Four Tibetan women'. [PG 21/7/2003]
For Citation use:
The Tibet Album.
"Comissariat at Yatung, 1911"
05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum.
<http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.285.485.html>.
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