Women wearing Tsang headdresses at Gyantse
1998.285.481 (Glass negative)
Key Information
Photographer
Henry Martin
Collection
Sir Charles Bell
Date of Photo
c. 1908 - 1914 ?
Region
Gyantse
Accession number
1998.285.481
Image Dimensions
82 x 135 mm
Further Information
Photographic Process
Negative glass plate gelatin , Copy Negative
Date Acquired
Donated 1983
Donated by
St. Antony's College, Oxford
Copy difference
Copy Neg
Expedition
Sir Charles Bell
Photo also owned by
Sir Charles Bell; Royal Central Asiatic Society
Previous Catologue Number
P.170
Previous Pitt Rivers Museum Number
BL.P.170
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]
Manual Catalogues -
Manual Catalogues - Bell's List of Illustrations entry: "[No. of chapter] XXI. [Subject of Chapter] The Women [Subject of Illustration] Working class girls at Gyantse. [Remarks] Martin's."
Contemporary Publication -
Contemporary Publication - Published in 'The People of Tibet', Bell, C. A., Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1928, facing p.151 [bottom]: 'Working-class girls wearing Tsang head-dress'. [PG 2/5/2003]
Contemporary Publication -
Contemporary Publication - This image has been published in David Macdonald, The Land of the Lama: A Description of a Country of Contrasts, and of its Cheerful, Happy-go-lucky People of Hardy Nature and Curious Customs; Their Religion, Ways of Living, Trade and Social Life (London, 1929), facing p.176 [top]: 'GALA DRESS OF PEASANT WOMEN/ Two peasant girls in gala headdresses, with plain coarse garments and workaday aprons'. [PG 14/4/2004]
For Citation use:
The Tibet Album.
"Women wearing Tsang headdresses at Gyantse"
05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum.
<http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.285.481.html>.
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