Key Information

Photographer

Hugh Richardson?

Collection

Evan Yorke Nepean

Date of Photo

February 1937?

Region

Lhasa

Accession number

2001.35.324.1

Image Dimensions

105 x 80 mm

Row of domestic buildings in outskirts of Lhasa with yak caravan in foreground.

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

5.1 [view film roll]

This Image also appears in another collection

BMR.86.1.15.3

Other Information

Notes on print/mount - 'Dwellings, Phari, Caravaneers; ink no: 95; pencil no: 5-1; blue no: '.; from an envelope marked 'Scenes around Lhasa and the Norbhu Lingka = Jewel Park, the summer palace' [KC 14/08/2006]

Manual Catalogues -

Manual Catalogues - Caption in Chapman's hand-written list of negatives made whilst on the Mission to Lhasa, 1936-7 [See PRM Manuscripts Collection]: 'Yaks in city before street'; PRM Manuscripts Collection: ‘List of Tibetan Prints and Negatives’ - Book 1, From Gangtok to the Natu La August 1936: ‘41/4 - Yaks and Dzzos (half-bred yaks) at outskirts of Lhasa city’ [MS 14/08/2006]

Other Information - Related Images

Other Information - Related Images: Images prefixed with '5.' comprise a group of negatives mainly containing images of Kyipup and family and Surkang and family. Images of Surkhang Se in the group have been identified as having probably been taken by Hugh Richardson [see 1998.131.494.1 in Frederick Spencer Chapman collection at PRM] [MS 14/08/2006]

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Yaks in street in outer Lhasa" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_2001.35.324.1.html>.

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Yaks in street in outer Lhasa