Harry Staunton holding a cine camera on roof in Gyantse

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1999.23.2.5 (Print black & white)

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Key Information

Photographer

unknown

Collection

Harry Staunton

Date of Photo

November 1941

Named Person

Harry Staunton

Region

Gyantse

Accession number

1999.23.2.5

Image Dimensions

55 x 82 mm

Photograph of Harry Staunton on the roof of a house in Gyantse smoking a cigarette holding a cine camera in his right hand and a box possibly containing film in the other. A camera case is slung on his back. In the background there is the roof of a house with a ritual roof decoration of branches with prayers attached. There is a hat possibly Staunton's in the foreground and the heads and faces of Tibetan children on the left and a Tibetan woman on the right bending over.

Further Information

Photographic Process

Print gelatin silver

Date Acquired

Donated 1999

Donated by

Diana Hughes

Expedition

H. Staunton

Photo also owned by

Diana Hughes

This Image also appears in another collection

1999.23.1.2.1

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Harry Staunton holding a cine camera on roof in Gyantse" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1999.23.2.5.html>.

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