Key Information

Photographer

Hugh E. Richardson

Collection

Hugh Richardson

Date of Photo

May 1939

Region

Betsang

Accession number

2001.59.7.93.1

Image Dimensions

55 x 57 mm

A young Changpa nomad wearing a homespun robe with a striped pattern standing up against a wall. He is wearing a necklace of coral beads. His hair is in small plaits at the back and roughly chopped in a fringe at the front. There is a saddled horse in the background.

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 93. 'do. [nomad]'

Research publication - Hugh. E. Richardson, Tibet and Its History , 1984 (2nd edition), Boston & London: Shambala, plate 10b, "Nomad boy". [KC 7/7/2006]

Other Information - Dates

Other Information - Dates: This image can be related to a group of 13 6x6 images which have contact prints with the batch development number '512' in red printed on them. These seem all to have been taken on, before or just after Richardson's tour to Talung in May 1939. Richardson visited Betsang on this trip, where he photographed nomads. The number relates also to the '512' batch development numbers printed in black on 21 6x9 images. The 6x6 and 6x9 images would have been produced using two different cameras demonstrating that by this time Richardson was using both a Reflex Korelle and a Zeiss Super Ikonta and that the batch numbers on contact prints may also correlate with each other across print sizes to assist in dating [MS 17/12/2005]

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Young Changpa nomad" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_2001.59.7.93.1.html>.

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