Grinding corn outside a house

Grinding corn outside a house

2001.35.363.1 (Print Black & White)

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Key Information

Photographer

Philip Neame

Collection

Evan Yorke Nepean

Date of Photo

August 28th 1936

Region

Lhasa > Prime Minister's House

Accession number

2001.35.363.1

Image Dimensions

106 x 72 mm

Group outside a house in a courtyard grinding grain with a hand operated mill stone. This was probably taken in the house of the Prime Minister, whom the British Mission party visited on this day and whose photographs immediately precedes this one

Further Information

Activity

Grinding

Photographic Process

Print silver

Date Acquired

Loaned August 2002

Donated by

Judy Goldthorp

Expedition

British Diplomatic Mission to Lhasa 1936-37

Photo also owned by

Lady Nepean

Previous Catologue Number

[PN] S 29 In publication
'Lhasa Mission 1936, Diary of Events', P. Neame, H. Richardson, F. S. Chapman, Government of India Political Department [Note: photographs for October 18th - November 4th 1936 are not included as their relationship to text is not detailed; see Mission Diary text for details of images] [see photos in publication]
[PN] S 29 [view loan photo]

This Image also appears in another collection

2006.1.36.29

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Grinding corn outside a house" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_2001.35.363.1.html>.

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