Key Information

Photographer

Frederick Spencer Chapman

Collection

Hugh E. Richardson

Date of Photo

1936-37

Region

Lhasa Area

Accession number

BMR.86.1.61.3

Tibetan man driving a pair of oxen carrying an upturned table. The man carries a cylindrical tea churn on his back. The white walls of a mansion can be seen in the background, as can some tents behind trees on the left hand side of the image. The man and oxen are walking along a narrow path which has been marked out with a low stone wall

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

Revised Photographer

Not chapman?

Related Collections

F. S. Chapman Collection in the Pitt Rivers Museum

This Image also appears in another collection

1998.131.242

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Man driving oxen" 05 Dec. 2006. The British Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_BMR.86.1.61.3.html>.

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Man driving oxen