Key Information

Photographer

Evan Yorke Nepean

Collection

Evan Yorke Nepean

Date of Photo

August 24th 1936

Named Person

Sir Basil Gould

Region

Lhasa Area >

Accession number

2001.35.396.12.3

Image Dimensions

90 x 58 mm

Tibetan officials greeting members of the British Mission outside Lhasa. Sir Basil Gould can be seen in profile on the left, the back of another Mission member towards the camera, two Tibetan officials facing Gould, and Norbhu Dhondup, who acted as interpreter standing on the left, in profile. Other mission staff survey the scene from the edges of the path

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

Previous Catologue Number

YN.31

This Image also appears in another collection

2001.35.46.1 1998.131.391.1 1998.131.391.2

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Gould and the Mission being received outside Lhasa" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_2001.35.396.12.3.html>.

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