Key Information

Photographer

Sir Charles Bell or Rabden?

Collection

Sir Charles Bell

Date of Photo

1901-1921

Accession number

1998.286.96

Image Dimensions

78 x 103

Back line: left to right: Yak hair bag of barley flour; yak hair bag of barley; yak hide skin of rice. In front, six sheep-skin bags of butter.

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

Previous Catologue Number

Q.85

Previous Pitt Rivers Museum Number

BL.Q.85

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] XXIV. [Subject of Chapter] Food and Drink [Subject of Illustration] Q85 (m) Back line: left to right: Yak hair bag of barley flour; yak hair bag of barley; yak hide skin of rice. In front, six sheep-skin bags of butter."

Contemporary Publication -

Contemporary Publication - Published in 'The People of Tibet', Bell, C. A., Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1928, facing p.220:"At back, left to right, yak-hair bag of barley flour, yak-hair bag of barley, yak-skin containing rice. In front, six sheepskin bags of butter." [MS 10/9/2004]

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Foodstuffs in hide bags" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.286.96.html>.

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