Key Information

Photographer

Rabden Lepcha?

Collection

Sir Charles Bell

Date of Photo

February 1921

Region

Lhasa > Parade Ground

Accession number

1998.285.109.1

Image Dimensions

120 x 163 mm

Tibetan soldiers on parade outside Lhasa. Buglers on left.

Further Information

Photographic Process

Negative glass plate gelatin , Negative Half Plate

Date Acquired

Donated 1983

Donated by

St Antony's College, Oxford.

Copy difference

Lantern

Expedition

Sir Charles Bell's Mission to Lhasa 1920-21

Photo also owned by

Royal Central Asiatic Society

Revised Photographer

Rabden Lepcha?

Previous Catologue Number

H.98

Previous Pitt Rivers Museum Number

BL.H.98

Published

'Tibet Past & Present', Sir Charles Bell, Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1924 [view list of illustrations]

Manual Catalogues -

Manual Catalogues - Bell's List of Illustrations entry: "[No. of chapter] IX. [Subject of Chapter] The Army. [Subject of Illustration] H.98 (o) Tibetan soldiers on parade outside Lhasa. Buglers on left. Feb.1921. [Where placed - book page] I, 193. [Remarks] L.61 [lantern slide 61] (D.L)"

Contemporary Publication -

Contemporary Publication - Published in 'Tibet Past & Present', Bell, C. A., Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924, facing p.193: "Soldiers of the new army on parade in Lhasa" [MS 02/02/2006]

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Tibetan soldiers on parade in Lhasa, February 1921" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. Accessed 16 May. 2012 <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.285.109.1.html>.

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Tibetan soldiers on parade in Lhasa, February 1921