Beautiful rare photos show Tibet 100 years ago
London's Bonhams Fine Art Auctioneers is currently auctioning
rare photographs taken over 100 years ago in Tibet. The pictures were
photographed by British officer John Claude White during a military
mission to Tibet in 1903-1904. From NPR:Contemporary Tibet conjures a mysterious mental image. Situated at the highest elevation on Earth, it is historically hotly contested territory with a large nomadic and religious population. So imagine how much more mysterious it was 100 years ago — when travel was difficult and few foreigners were granted entry.To learn more about the photographs you can listen to today's Morning Edition program on NPR during which David Park, director of books, maps and manuscripts at Bonhams, discusses White's photographs with host Renee Montagne.
Now part of Tibet's unseen history is coming into light, with an auction in London on Tuesday of photographs taken more than a century ago, during the 1903 British mission to Tibet. The photographs, taken by British political officer John Claude White, are the first known images to have left the country.
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Reply by shannon on October 6, 2010, 12:05 pm
Maybe those are hats made out of yak hide. I have a hat that
makes me look something like that. My sister bought it in asia. Mine
is white, though, so you can tel it's fleece rather than human hair.
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