Key Information

Photographer

Rabden Lepcha?

Collection

Sir Charles Bell

Date of Photo

1920-1921

Region

Lhasa

Accession number

1998.286.106.1

Image Dimensions

78 x 103

Tea shop in Lhasa with tea bricks on shelf above. Leather sacks, containing tea bricks, below.

Further Information

Photographic Process

Negative Quarter Plate

Date Acquired

Donated 1983

Donated by

St Antony's College, Oxford

Copy difference

Lantern Notches on right side

Expedition

Sir Charles Bell's Mission to Lhasa 1920-21

Previous Catologue Number

Q.95

Previous Pitt Rivers Museum Number

BL.Q.95

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] XXIV. [Subject of Chapter] Food and Drink [Subject of Illustration] Q95 (z) Tea shop in Lhasa. Tea bricks above on shelf. Leather sacks, containing tea bricks, below. [Remarks] L.117. (Y in L)"

Contemporary Publication -

Contemporary Publication - Published in 'The People of Tibet', Bell, C. A., Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1928, facing p.236:"Tea shop in Lhasa. Tea bricks on shelf. Sacks, containing bricks, below." [MS 10/9/2004]

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Tea shop in Lhasa" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.286.106.1.html>.

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