Key Information

Photographer

Sir Charles Bell or Rabden?

Collection

Sir Charles Bell

Date of Photo

1904-1920

Region

Gyantse Region > Serchok

Accession number

1998.286.58

Image Dimensions

78 x 103

Bag of yak-hide containing mustard oil at Serchok, Gyantse, along with many other articles of food, used to pay wages etc.

Further Information

Activity

Administration

Photographic Process

Negative Quarter Plate

Date Acquired

Donated 1983

Donated by

St Antony's College, Oxford

Copy difference

Intensifier Notches on right side

Expedition

Sir Charles Bell

Previous Catologue Number

Q.50

Previous Pitt Rivers Museum Number

BL.Q.50

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] XIV. [Subject of Chapter] Currency. [Subject of Illustration] Q50. (b) Bag of yak-hide containing mustard oil at Serchok, Gyantse, along with many other articles of food, used to pay wages etc."

Contemporary Publication -

Contemporary Publication - Published in 'The People of Tibet', Bell, C. A., Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1928, facing p.102:"Yak-hide bag containing mustard oil, which the landlord uses in the payment of wages." [MS 10/9/2004]

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Yak-hide bag containing foodstuffs as wages" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.286.58.html>.

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