Key Information

Photographer

Evan Yorke Nepean

Collection

Evan Yorke Nepean

Date of Photo

August 5th 1936?

Region

Chumbi Valley Region > Phari

Accession number

2001.35.396.42.3

Image Dimensions

90 x 58 mm

Yaks laden with wool to trade in India. Photograph taken on the Phari plain

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

2001.35.228.1

Other Information

Notes on print/mount - '228 = 1 - 225 Yaks laden with wool Phari'. [MS 01/08/2006]

Other Information - Dates

Other Information - Dates: Nepean travelled through Phari with the main mission party under Sir Basil Gould on August 5th 1936. He returned in December. However, the landscape with its low rain clouds suggests that this photograph was probably taken on the earlier occasion [MS 01/08/2006]

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Yaks laden with wool to sell in India" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_2001.35.396.42.3.html>.

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