Vultures at sky burial

Vultures at sky burial

1998.285.362.2 (Lantern Slide)

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Key Information

Photographer

Rabden Lepcha?

Collection

Sir Charles Bell

Date of Photo

1920-1921

Region

Lhasa Area

Accession number

1998.285.362.2

Image Dimensions

81 x 81 mm

Vultures eating the flesh of the corpses at a sky burial. Three people in background who had helped to prepare the corpses

Further Information

Photographic Process

Lantern Slide

Date Acquired

Donated 1983

Donated by

St Antony's College, Oxford.

Expedition

Sir Charles Bell's Mission to Lhasa 1920-21

Photo also owned by

Royal Central Asiatic Society

Revised Photographer

Rabden Lepcha?

Previous Catologue Number

L.163

Previous Pitt Rivers Museum Number

BL.H.332

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Vultures at sky burial" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.285.362.2.html>.

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