Key Information

Photographer

Sir Charles Bell or Rabden?

Collection

Sir Charles Bell

Date of Photo

1904-1921

Region

Yamdrok Tso Region > Plain of the Three Sisters

Accession number

1998.286.71

Image Dimensions

78 x 103

Tibetan muleteers encamped for the night on "The Plain of the Three Sisters", 15,000ft above the sea.

Further Information

Photographic Process

Negative Quarter Plate , Copy Negative

Date Acquired

Donated 1983

Donated by

St Antony's College, Oxford

Copy difference

Copy Neg Intensifier

Expedition

Sir Charles Bell

Revised Photographer

Not Bell?

Previous Catologue Number

Q.63

Previous Pitt Rivers Museum Number

BL.Q.63

Related Collections

British Library, Oriental and India Office Collections

This Image also appears in another collection

1998.286.72

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] XIX. [Subject of Chapter] The Traders [Subject of Illustration] Q63 (u) Tibetan muleteers encamped for the night on "The Plain of the Three Sisters", 15,000ft above the sea."

Contemporary Publication -

Contemporary Publication - Published in 'The People of Tibet', Bell, C. A., Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1928, facing p.116:"Muleteers encamped for the night on the 'Three Brother Plains', fifteen thousand feet above sea-level." [MS 10/9/2004]

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Tibetan Muleteers" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.286.71.html>.

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