Key Information

Photographer

Rabden Lepcha?

Collection

Sir Charles Bell

Date of Photo

1920-1921

Region

Lhasa > Meat Market

Accession number

1998.286.98.2

Image Dimensions

81 x 81 mm

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

Lantern Slide

Date Acquired

Donated 1983

Donated by

St Antony's College, Oxford

Expedition

Sir Charles Bell's Mission to Lhasa 1920-21

Previous Catologue Number

L.114

Previous Pitt Rivers Museum Number

BL.Q.88

Related Collections

British Library, Oriental and India Office Collections

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Meat market in Lhasa" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.286.98.2.html>.

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