Key Information

Photographer

Rabden Lepcha?

Collection

Sir Charles Bell

Date of Photo

1920-1921

Region

Lhasa >

Accession number

1998.286.201

Image Dimensions

78 x 103

Books for sale in a street in Lhasa.

Further Information

Photographic Process

Negative Quarter Plate

Date Acquired

Donated 1983

Donated by

St Antony's College, Oxford

Copy difference

Intensifier

Expedition

Sir Charles Bell's Mission to Lhasa 1920-21

Previous Catologue Number

Q.189

Previous Pitt Rivers Museum Number

BL.Q.189

Related Collections

British Library, Oriental and India Office Collections

Published

'Tibet Past & Present', Sir Charles Bell, Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1924 [view list of illustrations]

Manual Catalogues -

Manual Catalogues - Bell's List of Illustrations entry: "[No. of chapter] XL. [Subject of Chapter] The Language [Subject of Illustration] Q189 (e). Books for sale in a street at Lhasa. At the foot one book lying open. [Remarks] I, 92"

Contemporary Publication -

Contemporary Publication - Published in 'Tibet Past & Present', Bell, C. A., Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924, facing p.92:"Tibetan literature"

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Books for sale in Lhasa" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.286.201.html>.

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