Key Information

Photographer

Rabden Lepcha?

Collection

Sir Charles Bell

Date of Photo

1920-1921

Region

Lhasa > Rakyapa camp

Accession number

1998.286.76.1

Image Dimensions

78 x 103

Two tents to shelter beggars outside Lhasa, one beggar in foreground, mountains in background. Animal horns of the kind used to build the houses of Ragyapa can be seen piled up in front of the tent on the left hand side of the image

Further Information

Photographic Process

Negative Quarter Plate , Copy Negative

Date Acquired

Donated 1983

Donated by

St Antony's College, Oxford

Copy difference

Intensifier Lantern Copy Neg

Expedition

Sir Charles Bell's Mission to Lhasa 1920-21

Previous Catologue Number

Q.67

Previous Pitt Rivers Museum Number

BL.Q.67

Related Collections

British Library, Oriental and India Office Collections

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Beggars' tents, Lhasa" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.286.76.1.html>.

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Beggars' tents, Lhasa