Key Information

Photographer

Rabden Lepcha?

Collection

Sir Charles Bell

Date of Photo

1920-1921

Region

Lhasa

Accession number

1998.285.131.1

Image Dimensions

120 x 163 mm

Wealthy trader from Eastern Tibet (seated) with three servants standing behind him. The trader wears a double necklace of corals and onyx around his neck. Image is taken against a floral textile background suspended from the beams of a building. Carpet on floor.

Further Information

Photographic Process

Negative glass plate gelatin , Negative Half Plate

Date Acquired

Donated 1983

Donated by

St Antony's College, Oxford.

Copy difference

Lantern

Expedition

Sir Charles Bell's Mission to Lhasa 1920-21

Photo also owned by

Royal Central Asiatic Society

Revised Photographer

Rabden Lepcha?

Previous Catologue Number

See H.114

Previous Pitt Rivers Museum Number

BL.H.114

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] XIX. [Subject of Chapter] The Traders. [Subject of Illustration] H.114 (n) Well-to-do trader of Eastern Tibet with three servants. Round traders neck is a double necklace of corals and onyx. [Remarks] L.88 [lantern slide 88]"

Technical Information - There appears to be a flaw in the image across the top left corner, which seems to have been created by problems with the emulsion [MS 26/5/2004]

Contemporary Publication -

Contemporary Publication - Published in 'The People of Tibet', Bell, C. A., Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1928, facing p.111:"Wealthy merchant of eastern Tibet with servants. He wears a double necklace of corals and onyx. Scabbard of servant on right holds three corals, as is usual in eastern Tibet." [MS 10/9/2004]

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Wealthy trader from Eastern Tibet with servants" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.285.131.1.html>.

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