Key Information

Photographer

Evan Yorke Nepean

Collection

Evan Yorke Nepean

Date of Photo

August 12th 1936?

Region

Gyantse Region > Nyang Chu

Accession number

2001.35.37.1

Image Dimensions

90 x 58 mm

Crossing the Nyang Chu en route to Gyantse in 1936. Horses belonging to the Mission party are being led across a bridge. A building can be seen in the background of the image on the right side

Further Information

Photographic Process

Print silver

Date Acquired

Loaned August 2002

Donated by

Judy Goldthorp

Expedition

British Diplomatic Mission to Lhasa 1936-37

Photo also owned by

Lady Nepean

This Image also appears in another collection

2001.35.396.10.3

Other Information

Notes on print/mount - 2-037;3; 17 [circled in pencil]; Nyang-chu valley. [KC 28/07/2006]

Other Information - Related Images

Other Information - Related Images: Caption for this image in Nepean's album (see Same Image As) - 'Party crossing tributary of Tsangpo river '. [MS 28/07/2006]

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Crossing Nyang Chu" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_2001.35.37.1.html>.

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