Key Information

Photographer

Sir Charles Bell or Rabden Lepcha?

Collection

Sir Charles Bell

Date of Photo

March 16th 1921?

Region

Lhasa > Kundeling > Kesar Lhakhang

Accession number

1998.285.254.1

Image Dimensions

120 x 163 mm

Image of Kesar Gyalpo in the Kesar Lhakhang in Lhasa. Below it are flower vases and seven brass bowls for holy water. At the sides tall flower vases. The image is draped with white ceremonial scarves.

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

Previous Catologue Number

H.219

Previous Pitt Rivers Museum Number

BL.H.219

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] XXXVIII. [Subject of Chapter] Folklore [Subject of Illustration] H.219 (f) Image of Kesar Gyalpo in the Kesar Lhakhang in Lhasa. Below it are flower vases and seven brass bowls, as usual, for holy water. At the sides tall flower vases. [Where placed - book page] I,20. [Remarks] L.207"

Contemporary Publication -

Contemporary Publication - Published in 'Tibet Past & Present', Bell, C. A., Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924, facing p.20:"Image of King Ke-sar, the hero of early Tibetan mythology. In the Ke-sar Temple at Lhasa"

Other Information - Dates

Other Information - Dates: Bell visited Kesar Lhakhang on March 16th 1921, although this photograph may have been taken on other occasions when either he or Rabden visited (in the latter case, with instructions from Bell to take photographs)

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Image of Kesar Gyalpo, Lhasa" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.285.254.1.html>.

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