Key Information

Photographer

Rabden Lepcha

Collection

Sir Charles Bell

Date of Photo

February - March 1921

Region

Lhasa

Accession number

1998.285.314

Image Dimensions

120 x 163 mm

Horpa woman visiting Lhasa for the Prayer Festival. Hair in many plaits, wearing decorated apron. Standing in park

Further Information

Photographic Process

Negative glass plate gelatin , Negative Half Plate

Date Acquired

Donated 1983

Donated by

St Antony's College, Oxford.

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

H.285

Previous Pitt Rivers Museum Number

BL.H.285

This Image also appears in another collection

1998.285.687

Manual Catalogues -

Manual Catalogues - Bell's List of Illustrations entry: "[No. of chapter] LII. [Subject of Chapter] Tribes to the North [Subject of Illustration] H.285 (d) Horpa woman of the farmer class come to Lhasa for the 'Prayer Festival.' Note the many pigtails and the silk apron with swastikas."

Other Information - Related Images

Other Information - Related Images: This image seems to have been taken in a similar location to that of 1998.285.312 and 1998.285.313, the portraits of the Golok man and woman [MS 29/9/2004]

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Horpa woman" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.285.314.html>.

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