Key Information

Photographer

Arthur Hopkinson

Collection

A. J. Hopkinson

Date of Photo

1927 - 1928

Region

Gyantse > Hospital

Accession number

BMH.F.99.1

Image Dimensions

115 x 85

A Nepalese stabbing victim at the Gyantse hospital run, from late 1927, by Captain Mulligan. Hopkinson states in his letters home that by early 1928 there were efforts to increase the number of outpatients coming to the hospital, most of whom came from Kham and Shigatse [see Notes]

Further Information

Photographic Process

Negative film nitrate

Expedition

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

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Frost-bite patient at Gyantse hospital" 05 Dec. 2006. The British Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_BMH.F.99.1.html>.

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Frost-bite patient at Gyantse hospital