Key Information

Photographer

Sir Charles Bell or Rabden Lepcha?

Collection

Sir Charles Bell

Date of Photo

1903-1920

Region

Sikkim

Accession number

1998.286.7.1

Image Dimensions

60 x 78

In a Sikkim forest, group of people walking with two horses

Further Information

Photographic Process

Negative Quarter Plate , Copy Negative

Date Acquired

Donated 1983

Donated by

St Antony's College, Oxford

Copy difference

Copy Neg Intensifier Lantern

Expedition

Sir Charles Bell

Previous Catologue Number

Q.9

Previous Pitt Rivers Museum Number

BL.Q.9

Related Collections

British Library, Oriental and India Office Collections

Published

'The People of Tibet', Sir Charles Bell, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1928 [view list of illustrations]

Manual Catalogues -

Manual Catalogues - Bell's List of Illustrations entry: "[No. of chapter] I. [Subject of Chapter] Sikkim [Subject of Illustration] Q.9 (av) In a Sikkim forest. [Remarks] L.8 (D.L)"

In Negative - the negative is sulphiding very badly and the extent of this may have been exaggerated by the use of an intensifying process on the negative [MS 4/8/2004]

Contemporary Publication -

Contemporary Publication - Published in 'The People of Tibet', Bell, C. A., Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1928, facing p.7:"In a Sikkim forest"

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Group in a forest in Sikkim" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.286.7.1.html>.

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Group in a forest in Sikkim