Rug sellers in Gyantse

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1998.285.472.1 (Film negative)

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Key Information

Photographer

Unknown photogapher

Collection

Sir Charles Bell

Date of Photo

1904-1922

Region

Gyantse > Bazaar

Accession number

1998.285.472.1

Image Dimensions

137mm x 80mm

Group of women selling carpets in Gyantse. Many of the women are wearing Gyantse style headdresses. Rolled up carpets and a skane of wool can be seen in the foreground of the image

Further Information

Photographic Process

Negative film nitrate

Date Acquired

Donated 1983

Donated by

St. Antony's College, Oxford

Copy difference

Lantern

Expedition

Sir Charles Bell

Photo also owned by

Sir Charles Bell; Royal Central Asiatic Society

Revised Photographer

Not Bell? Kennedy or Rosemeyer?

Previous Catologue Number

P.143

Previous Pitt Rivers Museum Number

BL.P.143

Related Collections

British Library, Oriental and India Office Collections

Published

'The People of Tibet', Sir Charles Bell, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1928 [view list of illustrations]

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Rug sellers in Gyantse" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.285.472.1.html>.

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