Period:Unknown Production date:31.03.1927
Materials:plastic
Technique:photographic process
Subjects:harness/trappings horse/ass merchant/shopkeeper
Dimensions:Height: 85 millimetres Width: 108 millimetres
Description:
Negative (black and white); A. J. Hopkinson wrote in his journal for March 31st 1927 that on this day he left Tuna and marched across the plain and the Tang La to Phari. En route he came across a group of traders who originated from near Mount Everest, who were trading a herb called pangling which they intended to export to China via Calcutta. He also comments on their reluctance to be photographed [see Notes]. Here the traders can be seen with their pack donkeys walking across the plain, about to halt at a Tibetan house for a drink of chang. Tibet. Photographic process
IMG
![图片[1]-negative (polymer film)(black and white) BM-2015-OA+.271-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/43/mid_BMH_D_10_1_O.jpg)
Comments:This negative is kept in one of several original wallets used by Hopkinson.. Image taken during A. J. Hopkinson’s Tour of Duty as British Trade Agent, Gyantse, 1927-28.
Materials:plastic
Technique:photographic process
Subjects:harness/trappings horse/ass merchant/shopkeeper
Dimensions:Height: 85 millimetres Width: 108 millimetres
Description:
Negative (black and white); A. J. Hopkinson wrote in his journal for March 31st 1927 that on this day he left Tuna and marched across the plain and the Tang La to Phari. En route he came across a group of traders who originated from near Mount Everest, who were trading a herb called pangling which they intended to export to China via Calcutta. He also comments on their reluctance to be photographed [see Notes]. Here the traders can be seen with their pack donkeys walking across the plain, about to halt at a Tibetan house for a drink of chang. Tibet. Photographic process
IMG
Comments:This negative is kept in one of several original wallets used by Hopkinson.. Image taken during A. J. Hopkinson’s Tour of Duty as British Trade Agent, Gyantse, 1927-28.
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