Key Information

Photographer

Henry Martin? (or David Macdonald?)

Collection

Sir Charles Bell

Date of Photo

c. 1908 - 1914 ?

Region

Chumbi Valley Region > Phari

Accession number

1998.285.488

Image Dimensions

134 x 80 mm

Daughter of a Phari Dzongpon dressed in the costume of a girl from Kong-po

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.184

Previous Pitt Rivers Museum Number

BL.P.184

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] P.184 (gl) (z) A Tibetan lady from Kong-pu province, some 8 days' journey east of Lhasa. [Remarks] Macdonald's"

Other Information - Photographer: David Macdonald is known to have owned many photographs by Henry Martin. [PG 13/10/2003]

Other Information - People

Other Information - People: The girl in this picture can be identified as the daughter of the Phari-Jongpen by reference to 1998.285.490. [MS 22/7/2004]

Contemporary Publication -

Contemporary Publication - Published in 'The People of Tibet', Bell, C. A., Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1928, facing p.151 [top]: '"That of a lady of Kong-po shows wide variations from the costumes worn around Lhasa"'. [PG 2/5/2003]

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Daughter of a Phari Dzongpon wearing Kong-po dress" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.285.488.html>.

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