Tibetan house with exterior staircase

Tibetan house with exterior staircase

1998.285.592.1 (Film negative)

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Key Information

Photographer

Sir Charles Bell

Collection

Sir Charles Bell

Date of Photo

1900-1922

Accession number

1998.285.592.1

Image Dimensions

137 x 80mm

The entrance to a building with two people standing on a wooden staircase and wooden vessels in foreground.

Further Information

Photographic Process

Negative film nitrate

Date Acquired

Donated 1983

Donated by

St Antony's College, Oxford.

Copy difference

Lantern

Expedition

Sir Charles Bell

Photo also owned by

Royal Central Asiatic Society

Revised Photographer

Not Bell? Kennedy? Rosemeyer?

Previous Catologue Number

P.533

Previous Pitt Rivers Museum Number

BL.P.553

Related Collections

British Library, Oriental and India Office Collections

Published

'The People of Tibet', Sir Charles Bell, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1928 [view list of illustrations]

Manual Catalogues -

Manual Catalogues - Bell's List of Illustrations entry: "[No. of chapter] LIX. [Subject of Chapter] Houses. [Subject of illustration] P.553 (a) A Tibetan staircase. [Remarks] L.284"

Contemporary Publication -


Contemporary Publication - Published in 'The People of Tibet', Bell, C. A., Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1928, facing p.50:" 'A wooden ladder is sometimes found.' Staircase at house entrance" [MS 10/9/2004]

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Tibetan house with exterior staircase" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.285.592.1.html>.

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