Key Information

Photographer

Rabden Lepcha?

Collection

Sir Charles Bell

Date of Photo

1920-1921

Region

Lhasa >

Accession number

1998.285.333.1

Image Dimensions

120 x 163 mm

Group of seven women from the Po country, four standing, three seated. One woman wearing Lhasan-style head-dress (second from left, standing). Photograph taken in a room with carved panels behind, edges of wooden pillars visible at either side

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

Previous Catologue Number

H.304

Previous Pitt Rivers Museum Number

BL.H.304

Manual Catalogues -

Manual Catalogues - Bell's List of Illustrations entry: "[No. of chapter] LVI. [Subject of Chapter] Tribes to the South [Subject of Illustration] H.304 (a) Women from the Po country and one Lhasan woman with Lhasan head-dress in the back row, second from the left. [Remarks] L.280"

Other Information - Related Images

Other Information - Related Images: This image has been taken in the same place as 1998.285.335, a group of men from the Po country. [MS 21/6/2004]

Other Information - Historical Background: Bell's Diary entry for 16th May 1921:"The present ruler of the Po country has an agent in Lhasa now who is asking the Tsarong Shape to give his sister as wife to the ruler of Po. Palhese tells me that "These rulers often take a Lhasa lady to wife, but are unable to get from the best families, as their country is not only a long way off but lawless. Sikkim on the other hand, though distant, is quiet and law-abiding, and so the Sikkim rulers are able to get their wives from the best families." [Vol. X., p.54]

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Women from Po country, southern Tibet" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.285.333.1.html>.

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