Tibetan porters and muleteers

Tibetan porters and muleteers

1998.131.204 (Print black & white)

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Key Information

Photographer

Evan Yorke Nepean

Collection

Frederick Spencer Chapman

Date of Photo

September - December 1936

Region

Lhasa Area

Accession number

1998.131.204

Image Dimensions

203 x 259 mm

Group of four Tibetan men carrying bags and sharpened staves. Wearing woollen chubas and felt boots. Tinder pouch and flint worn by man on left at waist. Mules and muleteers in background.

Further Information

Photographic Process

Enlargement , Print gelatin silver

Date Acquired

Donated 1994

Donated by

Faith Spencer Chapman

Expedition

British Diplomatic Mission to Lhasa 1936-37

Photo also owned by

Frederick Spencer Chapman

Previous Pitt Rivers Museum Number

SC.T.2.204

This Image also appears in another collection

2001.35.396.36.3 2001.35.193.1

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Tibetan porters and muleteers" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.131.204.html>.

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