Man driving oxen

Man driving oxen

1998.131.242 (Contact Print)

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Key Information

Photographer

Frederick Spencer Chapman

Collection

Frederick Spencer Chapman

Date of Photo

1936-37

Region

Lhasa Area

Accession number

1998.131.242

Image Dimensions

60 x 91 mm

Tibetan man driving a pair of oxen carrying an upturned table. The man carries a cylindrical tea churn on his back. The white walls of a mansion can be seen in the background, as can some tents behind trees on the left hand side of the image. The man and oxen are walking along a narrow path which has been marked out with a low stone wall

Further Information

Photographic Process

Print gelatin silver

Date Acquired

Donated 1994

Donated by

Faith Spencer Chapman

Expedition

British Diplomatic Mission to Lhasa 1936-37?

Photo also owned by

Frederick Spencer Chapman

Revised Photographer

Not chapman?

Previous Pitt Rivers Museum Number

SC.T.2.242

This Image also appears in another collection

BMR.86.1.61.3

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Man driving oxen" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.131.242.html>.

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