Key Information

Photographer

Sir Charles Bell or Rabden Lepcha?

Collection

Sir Charles Bell

Date of Photo

1920-1921

Region

Lhasa Area

Accession number

1998.286.148

Image Dimensions

78 x 103

Pictures in Mentsipa's dispensary. The picture on the left concerns omens and dreams; the one on the right details plants used as drugs.

Further Information

Photographic Process

Negative Quarter Plate

Date Acquired

Donated 1983

Donated by

St Antony's College, Oxford

Copy difference

Notches on right side

Expedition

Sir Charles Bell's Mission to Lhasa 1920-21

Previous Catologue Number

Q.136

Previous Pitt Rivers Museum Number

BL.Q.136

Related Collections

British Library, Oriental and India Office Collections

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Medical pictures in Mentsipa's dispensary" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.286.148.html>.

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