Period:Unknown Production date:15 January 1936
Materials:paper
Technique:gelatin silver printing
Description:
Photograph (black and white) from an album; Group of three nomad girls from Eastern Tibet, probably Kham, wearing sheepskin coats with tinder pouches at the waist. Their hair is probably braided into 108 plaits, an auspicious Buddhist number and as typically done by Khampa women, and decorated with turquoise and coral hair ornaments.
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![图片[1]-photographic print(black and white); album BM-1986-0313-0.1.110-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/Rare books/mid_00623836_001.jpg)
![图片[2]-photographic print(black and white); album BM-1986-0313-0.1.110-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/Rare books/mid_00043176_001.jpg)
Comments:From an album of 238 prints. Album is bound in leather and fabric with “LHASA 1936.” embossed on the front cover. See also http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk.
Materials:paper
Technique:gelatin silver printing
Description:
Photograph (black and white) from an album; Group of three nomad girls from Eastern Tibet, probably Kham, wearing sheepskin coats with tinder pouches at the waist. Their hair is probably braided into 108 plaits, an auspicious Buddhist number and as typically done by Khampa women, and decorated with turquoise and coral hair ornaments.
IMG
Comments:From an album of 238 prints. Album is bound in leather and fabric with “LHASA 1936.” embossed on the front cover. See also http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk.
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