Key Information

Photographer

H. Staunton ?

Collection

Harry Staunton

Date of Photo

1940 - 1941

Region

Gyantse > Mission Hospital

Accession number

1999.23.1.37.5

Image Dimensions

90 x 60 mm

Hospital staff members at Gyantse hospital. They are dressed in an assortment of clothes. The man on the left is wearing a Tibetan coat and a brocade and fur hat. The remainder of the men are dressed in western-style jackets and trousers. Two of them are wearing pill-box hats. The woman in the centre is wearing a striped apron, a Lhasa headress, hair ornaments and an amulet box around her neck.

Further Information

Photographic Process

Print gelatin silver

Date Acquired

Donated 1999

Donated by

Diana Hughes

Expedition

H. Staunton

Photo also owned by

Diana Hughes

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Hospital staff members at Gyantse hospital" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1999.23.1.37.5.html>.

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