Women riding yaks across plain
BMH.G.54A.1 (Film negative)
Key Information
Photographer
Arthur Hopkinson
Collection
A. J. Hopkinson
Date of Photo
1927 - 1928
Region
Chumbi Valley Region > Tuna
Accession number
BMH.G.54A.1
Image Dimensions
85 x 113
Further Information
Photographic Process
Negative film nitrate
Expedition
A. J. Hopkinson's Tour of Duty as British Trade Agent, Gyantse, 1927-28
This Image also appears in another collection
NO SCAN
Other Information
In Negative - 'G-54' has been written along the right edge of the negative in blue-black ink [MS 19/08/2006]
Notes on print/mount - One contact print made from this negative is contained in A. J. Hopkinson's negative case with the negative. The print was made using Velox paper. 'A. J. Hopkinson' has been written on the back of the print in pencil, as has the reference 'G.54' [MS 19/08/2006]
Manual Catalogues -
Manual Catalogues - [Caption in A. J. Hopkinson's negative album 'Tibet G']: 'Women on yaks' [MS 05/05/2006]
Other Information - Description: [Extract from taped interview, Richard Blurton and Mrs Hopkinson] '54 - Two ladies travelling on yaks. On festival days women carried all their wealth on their headdresses. When EH [Eleanor Hopkinson] was in Tibet in the 1940s, however, the practice of women wearing the large wooden headdresses was dying out and most women merely wore a long plait in which were tied precious stones' [MS 12/08/2006]
For Citation use:
The Tibet Album.
"Women riding yaks across plain"
05 Dec. 2006. The British Museum.
<http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_BMH.G.54A.1.html>.
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