Key Information

Photographer

Rabden Lepcha?

Collection

Sir Charles Bell

Date of Photo

1920-1921

Region

Lhasa

Accession number

1998.285.333.2

Image Dimensions

81 x 81 mm

Group of seven women from the Po country, four standing, three seated. One woman wearing Lhasan-style head-dress (second from left, standing). Photograph taken in a room with carved panels behind, edges of wooden pillars visible at either side

Further Information

Photographic Process

Lantern Slide

Date Acquired

Donated 1983

Donated by

St Antony's College, Oxford.

Expedition

Sir Charles Bell's Mission to Lhasa 1920-21

Photo also owned by

Royal Central Asiatic Society

Previous Catologue Number

L.280

Previous Pitt Rivers Museum Number

BL.H.304

Manual Catalogues -

Manual Catalogues - Bell's List of Illustrations entry: "[No. of chapter] LVI. [Subject of Chapter] Tribes to the South [Subject of Illustration] H.304 (a) Women from the Po country and one Lhasan woman with Lhasan head-dress in the back row, second from the left. [Remarks] L.280"

Notes on print/mount - '8' was written in blue-black ink, but this has been crossed out and replaced in red with '280' [MS 7/9/2004]

Other Information - Related Images

Other Information - Related Images: This image has been taken in the same place as 1998.285.335. a group of men from the Po country. [MS 21/6/2004]

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Women from Po country, southern Tibet" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.285.333.2.html>.

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Women from Po country, southern Tibet