Key Information

Photographer

Rabden Lepcha?

Collection

Sir Charles Bell

Date of Photo

March 16th 1921?

Region

Lhasa > Kundeling > Kesar Lhakhang

Accession number

1998.285.256

Image Dimensions

120 x 163 mm

Caretakers of the Kesar Lhakhang at Lhasa. Tibetans of Yellow Hat sect. Two monks with a child on either side. Textile backdrop with flowers in foreground.

Further Information

Photographic Process

Negative glass plate gelatin , Negative Half Plate

Date Acquired

Donated 1983

Donated by

St Antony's College, Oxford.

Copy difference

Copy Neg

Expedition

Sir Charles Bell's Mission to Lhasa 1920-21

Photo also owned by

Royal Central Asiatic Society

Previous Catologue Number

H.231

Previous Pitt Rivers Museum Number

BL.H.231

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Caretakers of Kesar Lhakhang, Lhasa" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.285.256.html>.

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