Key Information

Photographer

Rabden Lepcha?

Collection

Sir Charles Bell

Date of Photo

August 29th 1921

Region

Phagchu Valley Region > Talung

Accession number

1998.286.113.1

Image Dimensions

78 x 103

Iron suspension bridge at Phondo. Over the top are stretched lung-ta, prayers written on pieces of white cloth. Sikkimese orderlies and other assistants standing on bridge

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.102

Previous Pitt Rivers Museum Number

BL.Q.102

Related Collections

British Library, Oriental and India Office Collections

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Iron suspension bridge at Phondo" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.286.113.1.html>.

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