Key Information

Photographer

Rabden Lepcha?

Collection

Sir Charles Bell

Date of Photo

1920-1921

Region

Lhasa > Meat Market

Accession number

1998.286.98.1

Image Dimensions

78 x 103

The modern meat market at Lhasa. Constructed under the orders of the Dalai Lama following his time in Darjeeling where he saw how the meat market there operated

Further Information

Photographic Process

Negative Quarter Plate

Date Acquired

Donated 1983

Donated by

St Antony's College, Oxford

Copy difference

Lantern Notches on right side

Expedition

Sir Charles Bell's Mission to Lhasa 1920-21

Previous Catologue Number

Q.88

Previous Pitt Rivers Museum Number

BL.Q.88

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] Q88 (q) The modern meat market at Lhasa. Constructed under the orders of the Dalai Lama after he stayed in Darjeeling and saw the meat market there. [Remarks] L.114 (Y in L)."

Contemporary Publication -

Contemporary Publication - Published in 'The People of Tibet', Bell, C. A., Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1928, facing p.220:" 'In Lhasa itself the Tibetan Government have established a meat market' ".[MS 10/9/2004]

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Meat market in Lhasa" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.286.98.1.html>.

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