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minus-squareocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·edit-27 days agoWhere? And more exact date? Guessing late 19th? Guy is Buddhist and looks potentially Tibetan so I’m putting my guess for southern Gansu or Qinghai ;)
minus-squareSkua@kbin.earthlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·7 days agohttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-34697724 Beijing, some time in the 1870s or 1880s. I suppose by the nature of him being a traveller with a whole caravan of camels, he’s more likely than most to be very far from home
minus-squareocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·7 days agoThanks for that link! Duke University has a similarly cool collection from the same period. Beijing makes sense too. Plenty of Tibetans there.
Where? And more exact date? Guessing late 19th? Guy is Buddhist and looks potentially Tibetan so I’m putting my guess for southern Gansu or Qinghai ;)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-34697724
Beijing, some time in the 1870s or 1880s. I suppose by the nature of him being a traveller with a whole caravan of camels, he’s more likely than most to be very far from home
Thanks for that link!
Duke University has a similarly cool collection from the same period.
Beijing makes sense too. Plenty of Tibetans there.