Key Information

Photographer

Philip Neame

Collection

Hugh E. Richardson

Date of Photo

August 3rd 1936

Region

Chumbi Valley Region > Yatung

Accession number

BMR.86.1.31.2

Old Tibetan woman begging in Yatung wearing beads and holding out her hat

Further Information

Photographic Process

Print gelatin silver

Expedition

British Diplomatic Mission to Lhasa 1936-37

Photo also owned by

Donated to the British Museum in 1986 by Hugh E. Richardson

Previous Catologue Number

[PN] M 24 [view loan photo]

Related Collections

F. S. Chapman Collection in the Pitt Rivers Museum

This Image also appears in another collection

2006.1.30.24

Other Information

Other Information - Album: This image appears with two others who are identified only as 'types' on page 31 of the Album [MS 24/08/2006]

Other Information - Setting

Other Information - Setting: Philip Neame states in his handlist of negatives that this woman resided in Yatung [see Same Image As] [MS 24/08/2006]

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Old Tibetan woman begging in Yatung " 05 Dec. 2006. The British Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_BMR.86.1.31.2.html>.

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Old Tibetan woman begging in Yatung