Threshing at Kirimcha

Threshing at Kirimcha

BMH.E.44.1 (Film negative)

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Key Information

Photographer

Arthur Hopkinson

Collection

A. J. Hopkinson

Date of Photo

November 28th 1927?

Region

Chumbi Valley Region > Kirimcha

Accession number

BMH.E.44.1

Image Dimensions

85 x 105

Kirimcha was 3 miles from Yatung at the top of a hill and surrounded by juniper. Hopkinson describes visiting there in November 1927 [see Notes]. Here local farmers thresh barley in front of their house. Large hayricks can be seen on the right of the image

Further Information

Activity

Threshing

Photographic Process

Negative film nitrate

Expedition

A. J. Hopkinson's Tour of Duty as British Trade Agent, Gyantse, 1927-28

Manual Catalogues -

Manual Catalogues - [Caption in A. J. Hopkinson's negative album 'Tibet E']: 'At Kirimcha - threshing' [MS 04/05/2006]

Other Information - Description: [Extract from taped interview, Richard Blurton and Mrs Hopkinson] '42, 43 and 44 - threshing barley in the Chumbi valley - 44 shows the unthreshed barley stacked between long poles waiting to be threshed. 43 shows the threshing taking place with flails' [MS 29/07/2006]

Other Information - Dates


Other Information - Dates: For dating of image, see A. J. Hopkinson Archive, OIOC British Library, Mss Eur D998/54, Journal Letters from Gyantse and Various Camps, 1927-28, commencing August 7th 1927, Camp Yatung, page 1 [MS 31/07/2006]

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Threshing at Kirimcha" 05 Dec. 2006. The British Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_BMH.E.44.1.html>.

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