Key Information

Photographer

Rabden Lepcha?

Collection

Sir Charles Bell

Date of Photo

1920-1921

Region

Lhasa > Yuthok

Accession number

1998.286.295

Image Dimensions

78 x 103

Man carrying hide boat on his back. Another man stands alongside. The sheep carries a pair of saddle bags containing his master's barley flour, dried meat, tea, salt, pepper and eating bowl. Taken just outside the Yuthok Bridge.

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.106

Previous Pitt Rivers Museum Number

BL.Q.106a

Related Collections

British Library, Oriental and India Office Collections

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Man carrying hide boat" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.286.295.html>.

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