1998.285.505 (Glass negative)
Unknown photographer
Sir Charles Bell
1907-1910?
Gyantse
1998.285.505
Negative glass plate gelatin , Copy Negative
Donated 1983
St. Antony's College, Oxford
Copy Neg
Sir Charles Bell
Sir Charles Bell; Royal Central Asiatic Society
Kennedy? Macdonald? Rosemeyer?
P.249
BL.P.249
British Library, Oriental and India Office Collections
'The People of Tibet', Sir Charles Bell, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1928 [view list of illustrations]
Manual Catalogues - Bell's List of Illustrations entry: "[No. of chapter] XXVII. [Subject of Chapter] Amusements. [Subject of illustration] P. 249 (gl) (s) Monk's sports at Gyantse, jumping."
Contemporary Publication - Published in 'The People of Tibet', Bell, C. A., Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1928, facing p.268 [top], 'The competitors leapt from the springboard to the ground below'. [PG 2/5/2003]
Contemporary Publication - This image has been published in David Macdonald, Twenty Years in Tibet: Intimate and Personal Experiences of the Closed Land among all Classes of its People from the Highest to the Lowest (London, 1932), facing p.130 [left]: '"THE LONG JUMP"/ A POPULAR EVENT DURING THE ANNUAL ATHLETIC COMPETITION AMONG THE MONKS OF THE PALKHOR CHODE MONASTERY IN GYANTSE. THE LEAP IS TAKEN FROM A RAISED PLATFORM.' [PG 22/4/2004]
For Citation use:
The Tibet Album.
"Monks' sports at Gyantse"
05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum.
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