1998.131.162 (Contact Print)
1998.131.162 (Contact Print)
Frederick Spencer Chapman
Frederick Spencer Chapman
August 8th 1936
Khangmar Region > Kala
1998.131.162
63 x 87
Print gelatin silver
Donated 1994
Faith Spencer Chapman
British Diplomatic Mission to Lhasa 1936-37
Frederick Spencer Chapman
CH.29 [view film roll]
SC.T.2.162
Notes on print/mount - 'CH.29' has been written on the back of the print in pencil, as has 'F. S. Chapman' apparently in Chapman's own hand. [MS 10/03/2006]
Manual Catalogues - Caption in Chapman's hand-written handlist of negatives taken whilst on the Mission to Lhasa, 1936 [See PRM Manuscripts Collection]: 'Distant view of Kala Dak B. [bungalow]' [MS 10/03/2006]
Other Information - Related Images: Images prefixed with 'CH' form a group of negatives containing images of Dochen, David Macdonald, Basil Gould, Evan Nepean, Philip Neame, Kala, prayer flags and ploughing. They all appear to have been taken on August 7th and 8th 1936 [MS 10/03/2006]
Other Information - Setting: "Reached the wide Kala valley and saw the lake over to the left; and to the right an immense grassy plain running up to rounded foot-hills and higher mountains to the north. // The low-roofed rest-house is surrounded by fields of wonderfully rich barley" ['Lhasa: The Holy City', F. Spencer Chapman, London: Chatto & Windus, 1938, p.42] [MS 10/03/2006]
For Citation use:
The Tibet Album.
"Kala"
05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum.
<http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.131.162.html>.
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