Key Information

Photographer

Lt Col R. S. Kennedy?

Collection

Sir Charles Bell

Date of Photo

April 14th 1921?

Region

Lhasa Area > Ganden

Accession number

1998.285.644

Image Dimensions

81 x 81 mm

Yaks ploughing near Ganden. On their heads are red tufts of yak hair, above these tufts of white sheep wool and on the tops sprays of cocks' feathers. On the neck and nostrils strings of cowries. On the right horns again tufts of yak hair. Behind the plough a man sowing

Further Information

Photographic Process

Lantern Slide

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

Revised Photographer

Lt Col R. S. Kennedy?

Previous Catologue Number

L.81

Previous Pitt Rivers Museum Number

BL.P.128

Manual Catalogues -

Manual Catalogues - Bell's List of Illustrations entry: "[No. of chapter] XVII. [Subject of Chapter] The Tenantry. [Subject of Illustration] P.128 (l) Yaks ploughing near Ganden. On their heads are red tufts of yak hair, above these tufts of white sheep wool and on the tops sprays of cocks' feathers. On the neck and nostrils strings of cowries. On the right horns again tufts of yak hair. Behind the plough a man sowing, which is unusual, for women usually sow. [Remarks] L.81"

Other Information - Related Images

Other Information - Related Images: The negative glass plate from which this lantern slide has been made is not in the PRM Collection [MS 23/8/2004]

Other Information - Photographer: This image, which was originally made using a Postcard-sized negative, may have been taken by Lt Col Robert Kennedy, the Medical Officer on Bell's 1920-21 mission, who seems to have preferred to use this size of negative [MS 25/02/2006]

Other Information - Dates

Other Information - Dates: In his Diary for this day, Bell mentions that whilst on a tour to Ganden monastery, photographs of decorated yaks were taken [Diary Vol. X, pp. 4 - 6] [MS 25/02/2006]

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Yaks ploughing near Ganden" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.285.644.html>.

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