Ploughing Begins (Kaili). . Artist(s): Li Huanmin (b.1930)
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Print depicting two Tibetan women giving offerings to a farmer, woodcut printed with oil-based ink. Height 525mm, width 799mm (image). The woodblock is part of the Chinese collection, shelfmark ORB MISC 29/14. Published in von de Burg, Christer, The Art of Contemporary Chinese Woodcuts, Muban F...
Yaks and Ekkas [Tibet]. Photographer: White, John Claude
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View of a British officer, an Indian soldier and porters posed beside two yak-drawn wooden carts. Another copy at Photo 1084/1 (22), in White's 'Tibet and Lhasa' (Calcutta, [c. 1906]), where the caption reads: 'These great shaggy animals have never previously been used for harness work, and the ...
Genre: Portrait Photography Showing two yaks harnessed to wooden carts, posed with a British officer, two Indian soldiers and Sikkimese porter: 'These great shaggy animals have never previously been used for harness work, and the experiment was looked on as a rash one. It turned out splendidly,...