Key Information

Photographer

Sir Charles Bell or Rabden

Collection

Sir Charles Bell

Date of Photo

April 16th 1921

Region

East Kyichu Valley Region > Dechen

Accession number

1998.285.67.2

Image Dimensions

81 x 81 mm

Ruined fort at Dechen, fourteen miles east of Lhasa. Settlement in foreground. Bottom right is the home of a 'wealthy peasant' where Bell and Kennedy stayed the night

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

Previous Catologue Number

L.29

Previous Pitt Rivers Museum Number

BL.H.62

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Fort, village and monastery at Dechen" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.285.67.2.html>.

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