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Photo 1043(340)
- Record Id:
- 040-003165217
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003164877
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100026374023.0x0001e2
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Photo 1043(340)
- Title:
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Nomad sewing up bags of salt [Lhasa]. Photographer: Spencer-Chapman, Frederick
- Scope & Content:
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Genre: Portrait Photography
'These Nomads had come down from the Chang Tang, the vast arid semi-desert away to the north of Lhasa. The journey took them fifty days. Hundreds of yaks carried wool, while each sheep was loaded with a bag of salt on each side of its back. The salt is deposited on the shores of brackish lakes by the evaporation of the water. As barley cannot grow up there they exchange their wool and salt for tsamba (roasted barley meal) and other wares.' (Lhasa Mission Diary, 7 January 1937). See also note at print 339.
[Gelatin silver print, 156x103mm].
Subjects = ethnic groups; nomads; Tibetans
Location = Lhasa; Tibet
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003164877
040-003165217 - Is part of:
- Photo 1043 : Photographs Taken by the Lhasa Mission 1936-7. Photographer(s): Neame, Philip
Photo 1043(340) : Nomad sewing up bags of salt [Lhasa]. Photographer: Spencer-Chapman, Frederick - Hierarchy:
- 032-003164877[0340]/040-003165217
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Photo 1043
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Start Date:
- 1937
- End Date:
- 1937
- Date Range:
- 7 Jan 1937
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Former External References:
- BJ35
- Material Type:
- Photographs
- Legal Status:
- Not Known
- Names:
- Spencer-Chapman, Frederick, Lieutenant-Colonel, 1907-1971