Key Information

Photographer

Hugh E. Richardson

Collection

Hugh Richardson

Date of Photo

1948 - 50

Named Person

Mary Taring

Region

Lhasa > Dekyi Lingka

Accession number

2001.59.7.52.1

Image Dimensions

43 x 54 mm

Two little girls dressed in western style dresses being pushed on a swing in the garden of Dekyi Lingka by Rinchen Dolma (Mary) Taring. She is wearing a striped apron and a ga'u necklace. A little boy, in a Tibet robe, watches on the right.

Further Information

Photographic Process

Negative film nitrate

Date Acquired

Donated August 2001

Donated by

The executors of the estate of Hugh E. Richardson

Expedition

Hugh E. Richardson

Manual Catalogues -

Manual Catalogues - Notes on negative album - '7' 'PEOPLE'

Manual Catalogues -

Manual Catalogues - Notes on negative index - Folio 52. 'Swing Mary La'.

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Rinchen Dolma Taring pushing girls on a swing" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_2001.59.7.52.1.html>.

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