Key Information

Photographer

Rabden Lepcha?

Collection

Sir Charles Bell

Date of Photo

1920-1921

Region

Lhasa

Accession number

1998.286.294

Image Dimensions

78 x 103

Shop in Lhasa with owner's daughter seated beside some of the goods on sale. These include wooden drinking bowls and fruit

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.264-91

Previous Pitt Rivers Museum Number

BL.Q.91b

Related Collections

British Library, Oriental and India Office Collections

Published

'Tibet Past & Present', Sir Charles Bell, Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1924 [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] Q264-91 (v) Another view of (u) [ref: 1998.286.102.1 - Shop in Lhasa with owner's daughter. Wooden drinking bowls fruits, etc. for sale]. [Remarks] L.115"

Contemporary Publication -

Contemporary Publication - Published in 'Tibet Past & Present', Bell, C. A., Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924, facing p.182:"Shop in Lhasa with owner's daughter. Fruit, &c., for sale"

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Stall selling foodstuffs in Lhasa" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.286.294.html>.

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