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Title	Tibetan warrior
Part of Set	Harrison Forman Collection - Tibet
Date of Photograph	1932-1933
Photographer's Note	Tibet
Photographer	Forman, Harrison, 1904-1978
Description	'Since the tribes are constantly warring amongst themselves, everyone goes about literally armed to the teeth. The guns carried by Tibetan nomads look like pitchforks because of the prongs attached to the barrels.'
Source of Descriptive Information	fr204050. Forman, H. (1933). The arrows of the mountain gods. Travel, SXII (2), 10-12.
Subject TGM	People Portraits Men Nomads Warriors Rifles Clothing & dress
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; Cellulose nitrate film
Original Item Location	Forman Nitrate Negatives, Box 9
Original Item ID	Roll 127
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	fr204050
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