Burning the Torma at the Torgya festival

Burning the Torma at the Torgya festival

1998.285.211 (Glass negative)

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Key Information

Photographer

Rabden Lepcha?

Collection

Sir Charles Bell

Date of Photo

March 3rd 1921

Region

Lhasa >

Accession number

1998.285.211

Image Dimensions

120 x 163 mm

Spectators at the Torgya festival with butter offerings or Torma in distance

Further Information

Activity

Ritual Activity

Photographic Process

Negative glass plate gelatin , Negative Half Plate

Date Acquired

Donated 1983

Donated by

St Antony's College, Oxford.

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.184

Previous Pitt Rivers Museum Number

BL.H.184

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Burning the Torma at the Torgya festival" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.285.211.html>.

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