visit: royalasiaticsociety.org

[Photo.86/2(022)] ’Tom Tit’, guardian of the Trade Agency, Gyantse, 1939


A photograph of ’Tom Tit’, a Tibetan mastiff and a watchdog of the Trade Agency, taken in Gyantse, 1939.

Part of a collection of 81 loose black and white photographs taken by Fleming Mackenzie while serving in Tibet in 1938-1939. From the Collections of Lieut.-Col. Fleming Mackenzie, donated by his daughter Mrs Ann O’Neill in 2022.