2001.59.3.40.1 (Film negative)
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Hugh E. Richardson
Hugh Richardson
After April 1937
Gyantse > British Trade Agency
2001.59.3.40.1
85 X 56 mm
Negative film nitrate
Donated August 2001
The executors of the estate of Hugh E. Richardson
Hugh E. Richardson
In Negative - Notes on negative album - '3' 'MUG, LHOBRAG GORGE. GYANTSE. KHAMPA DANCERS. CHIPSHA MEN, CHOPA. APSOS DREPUNG. NORBULING. DEKYI. POTALA'
In Negative - Notes on negative index - 'Apsos'
Other Information - Apsos, Tibetan breed of dog known popularly as Lhasa Apso. The term Apso is mostly likely to drived from Tibetan words a ra (beard) and sob sob (soft).[TS 20/4/2005]
Other Information - Dates: Richardson seems to have acquired his first mastiff puppy in April 1937, and subsequently acquired at least one Apso dog [Hugh Richardson Archive, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, MS Or Richardson 3 folio 84].
For Citation use:
The Tibet Album.
"Apso "
05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum.
<http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_2001.59.3.40.1.html>.
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