Key Information

Photographer

Rabden Lepcha?

Collection

Sir Charles Bell

Date of Photo

March 1921?

Region

Lhasa > Barkhor

Accession number

1998.285.386

Image Dimensions

120 x 163 mm

Crowds in street, leaning from windows and on rooftops waiting for a procession to pass by. Potala palace in distance.

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

Previous Catologue Number

H.356

Previous Pitt Rivers Museum Number

BL.H.356

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Crowded street in Lhasa during festival" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.285.386.html>.

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