Key Information

Photographer

Arthur Hopkinson

Collection

A. J. Hopkinson

Date of Photo

1927 - 1928

Region

Gyantse Region > Chu Nulla

Accession number

BMH.E.100.1

Image Dimensions

85 x 110

There were many side valleys in the vicinity of Gyantse and Hopkinson and other military and civil staff associated with the British Trade Agency would frequently visit these hills to try their hand at game shooting. A ruined settlement can be seen in the valley below. The flat ground in the left of the image was the place where British Agency staff went partridge shooting [see Notes]

Further Information

Photographic Process

Negative film nitrate

Expedition

A. J. Hopkinson's Tour of Duty as British Trade Agent, Gyantse, 1927-28

Other Information

In Negative - 'E100' has been written in the top left corner of the negative in blue-black ink [MS 31/07/2006]

Manual Catalogues -

Manual Catalogues - [Caption in A. J. Hopkinson's negative album 'Tibet E']: 'Cho Nulla' [MS 28/04/2006]

Other Information - Description: [Extract from taped interview, Richard Blurton and Mrs Hopkinson] '100 - the Chu-nullah, with the partridge ground at the left foreground' [MS 29/07/2006]

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "The Chu Nulla near Gyantse" 05 Dec. 2006. The British Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_BMH.E.100.1.html>.

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