Women drawing water in Gyantse

Women drawing water in Gyantse

BMH.B.95.1 (Film negative)

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Key Information

Photographer

Arthur Hopkinson

Collection

A. J. Hopkinson

Date of Photo

1927 - 1928

Region

Gyantse >

Accession number

BMH.B.95.1

Image Dimensions

85 x 105

A group of women drawing water using large wooden buckets, which they carry with a strap across their chest and shoulders. A large whitewashed wall can be seen in the background

Further Information

Photographic Process

Negative film nitrate

Expedition

A. J. Hopkinson's Tour of Duty as British Trade Agent, Gyantse, 1927-28

Other Information

In Negative - The edges of the negative have been cut very crudely [MS 30/06/2006]

Manual Catalogues -


Manual Catalogues - [Caption in A. J. Hopkinson's negative album 'Tibet B']: '95 - Drawing water' [MS 22/04/2006]

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Women drawing water in Gyantse" 05 Dec. 2006. The British Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_BMH.B.95.1.html>.

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