negative (polymer film)(black and white) BM-2015-OA+.505

Period:Unknown Production date:28.01.1928 (?)
Materials:plastic
Technique:photographic process
Subjects:costume/clothing personal-ornament
Dimensions:Height: 85 millimetres Width: 115 millimetres

Description:
Negative (black and white); Mrs Taring (left) and Mrs Pemba (right) in the Fort at Gyantse. Mrs Taring wears the elaborately decorated headdress typical of the Gyantse region, while Mrs Pemba wears that typical of the Lhasa region. Both wear other jewellery such as gau amulet boxes around their necks and other items. The photograph demonstrates very well the regional differences in aristocratic women’s dress that pertained in Central Tibet. Tibet. Photographic process
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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.