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Portrait of Tibetan man in Tibetan Plateau

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Title	Portrait of Tibetan man in Tibetan Plateau
Part of Set	Harrison Forman Collection - Tibet
Date of Photograph	ca. 1936
Photographer	Forman, Harrison, 1904-1978
Description	Photographic print caption: Tibetan 'Medicine Man.' He is identified by the coil of long hair atop his head which looks like a snake -- a symbol of immortality in Tibet.
Source of Descriptive Information	Photographic print located in Harrison Forman Collection, box M5, Forman 0881
Related Resources	Forman, H. (1951). 'Gold in Tibet'. Available at: http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/u?/tibet,4
Subject TGM	Men Portraits Hairstyles Beards
Subject LC	Tibet, Plateau of
Continent	Asia
Country	China
Geographic Feature	Qing Zang Gaoyuan (plateau)
Type	Image
Original Collection	Harrison Forman Collection
Original Item Size	35 mm
Original Item Medium	Black-and-white negatives
Provenance	Gift of Sandra Carlyle Forman, 1987
Repository	American Geographical Society Library, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries
Rights	The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System
Digital Publisher	University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries
Digital ID	fr003949
Date Digitized	2007
Digital Collection	Tibet - From the Collections of the American Geographical Society Library
Digital Format	Image/jpg
Project Name	NEH Grant Project: Saving and Sharing the AGS Library's Historic Nitrate Negative Images
Part of	American Geographical Society Library Digital Photo Archive