Key Information

Photographer

Philip Neame

Collection

Evan Yorke Nepean

Date of Photo

August 8th 1936

Region

Khangmar Region > Kala

Accession number

2001.35.305.2

Image Dimensions

107 x 81 mm

A woman in a large hooped headdress, photographed near Kala. This style of headdress was typical of the region south of and around Gyantse and Shigatse

Further Information

Photographic Process

Print silver

Date Acquired

Loaned August 2002

Donated by

Judy Goldthorp

Expedition

British Diplomatic Mission to Lhasa 1936-37

Photo also owned by

Lady Nepean

Previous Catologue Number

[PN] N 25 [view loan photo]

This Image also appears in another collection

2006.1.31.25a

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Woman in hooped headdress near Kala" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_2001.35.305.2.html>.

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Woman in hooped headdress near Kala