Key Information

Photographer

Frederick Spencer Chapman

Collection

Hugh E. Richardson

Date of Photo

1936-37

Region

Lhasa Area >

Accession number

BMR.86.1.38.3

A Lama riding on a white yak surrounded by other people on foot. The man on the left appears to be carrying a child on his back. Suspended from his waist he appears to have a metal chain to which a large key is tied. There is one man behind the yak on the right and a fourth person in the background, out of focus, on the extreme right. The lama is riding along a path with a low stonework wall at the side

Further Information

Activity

Riding

Photographic Process

Print gelatin silver

Expedition

British Diplomatic Mission to Lhasa 1936-37

Photo also owned by

Donated to the British Museum in 1986 by Hugh E. Richardson

Revised Photographer

Rolf

Related Collections

F. S. Chapman Collection in the Pitt Rivers Museum

This Image also appears in another collection

1998.131.205

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Lama riding white yak" 05 Dec. 2006. The British Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_BMR.86.1.38.3.html>.

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