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032-003125626 Language Not applicable Subject Ambans

1. Photo 920/1(69)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 920/1(69)
Title:
'How we took the pelican to the wilderness.' Photographer: Skrine, Sir Clarmont Percival
Scope & Content:
Showing the pelican being released at the riverside, with Doris Skrine standing in the background. The incident, in which Skrine was given the inconvenient present of a pelican by Amban of Boghaz Langar, and which then had to be surreptitiously freed, is recounted in his 'Chinese Central Asia' (...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Apr 1924
Extent:
1 item

2. Photo 920/1(74)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 920/1(74)
Title:
At the Temple of Nyang Nyang, Khotan, May 1924: Ma Tungling, Mr Kerakin Moldovack, self and Li Amban. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Group of the four figures posed in front of the temple gateway, with Turki figures in left foreground. [Glatin silver print, 298x227mm]. Subjects = Skrine Collection Location = China; Khotan; Xinjiang
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
May 1924
Extent:
1 item

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