1998.131.426.2 (Contact Print)
Frederick Spencer Chapman
Frederick Spencer Chapman
January 25th 1937
Choden Tendar , Mipon Seksing
Lhasa > Dekyi Lingka
1998.131.426.2
89 x 59
Print gelatin silver
Donated 1994
Faith Spencer Chapman
British Diplomatic Mission to Lhasa 1936-37
Frederick Spencer Chapman
3.1 [view film roll]
SC.T.2.426
Notes on print/mount - The contact print was made using Velox paper. The trade name is visible on the back of the print, albeit faded [MS 25/03/2006]
Manual Catalogues - Caption in Chapman's hand-written list of negatives made whilst on the Mission to Lhasa, 1936-7 [See PRM Manuscripts Collection]: 'Telegraphist and brother' [MS 25/03/2006]
Other Information - Relates Images: Images prefixed with '3' comprise a group of negatives including Mondo and telegraph officers, and views of Potala from Chakpori and other vantage points. They all seem to have been taken between January 25th - 27th 1936, with this image probably having been taken on January 25th [MS 25/03/2006]
Other Information - Setting: Entry in Mission Diary for January 25th 1936: "Today we had a large lunch party of officials who had not been invited before. There was Ringang's elder brother, a genial man who was once Depon in Kham. Kusho Choden Tendar the busy monk Telegraph-master was another guest; after lunch he went round to Dagg's tent and to his unbounded delight had a wireless conversation with Nainital. His brother - another monk official, Mipon Seksing, an old city Magistrate and Mondo, one of the boys who were at Rugby, completed the party" ['Lhasa Mission, 1936: Diary of Events', Part XIII p.2, written by Chapman] [MS 25/03/2006]
For Citation use:
The Tibet Album.
"Tsetrung Choden Tendar and Mipon Seksing"
05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum.
<http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.131.426.2.html>.
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