Key Information

Photographer

Unknown

Collection

Harry Staunton

Date of Photo

January 1940

Named Person

Harry Staunton

Accession number

1999.23.1.36.3

Image Dimensions

118 x 90 mm

Harry Staunton dressed in a silk brocade Tibetan coat, scarf and fur hat en route to Lhasa in January 1940. Barren rocky hillside in the background.

Further Information

Photographic Process

Print gelatin silver

Date Acquired

Donated 1999

Donated by

Diana Hughes

Expedition

H. Staunton

Photo also owned by

Diana Hughes

This Image also appears in another collection

1999.23.2.1

Other Information - Related Images

Other Information - Related Images: This print is the full size format of the cropped version 1999.23.2.1 which is found as a loose print in the Harry Staunton collection. This image seems to have been reproduced on a number of occasions in the Staunton collection possibly for the purposes of sending to friends and family. In the album this image appears on a page with three other photographs all taken in southern Tibet. [KC 10/10/2005]

Other Information - Related Images

Other Information - Related Images: This photograph was taken on the same occasion as that of Basil Gould (1999.23.1.19.1).

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Harry Staunton in a Tibetan coat and fur hat" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1999.23.1.36.3.html>.

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