Key Information

Photographer

Unknown photographer

Collection

Sir Charles Bell

Date of Photo

1915?

Region

Chumbi Valley Region

Accession number

1998.285.466.1

Image Dimensions

139mm x 80mm

See Bell's entry for BL.P.130 (not in PRM collection but description reads as follows): "P.130 (m) Reaping and carrying barley harvest in the Chumbi Valley." Group of children with bundles of barley on their backs.

Further Information

Activity

Harvesting

Photographic Process

Negative film nitrate

Date Acquired

Donated 1983

Donated by

St. Antony's College, Oxford

Copy difference

Lantern

Expedition

Sir Charles Bell

Photo also owned by

Sir Charles Bell; Royal Central Asiatic Society

Previous Catologue Number

P.133

Previous Pitt Rivers Museum Number

BL.P.133

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]

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Barley harvest in Chumbi Valley" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.285.466.1.html>.

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