1998.286.115.1 (Glass negative)
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Rabden Lepcha?
Sir Charles Bell
1904-1921
Gyantse Region > Staging bungalow
1998.286.115.1
78 x 103
Negative Quarter Plate , Copy Negative
Donated 1983
St Antony's College, Oxford
Copy Neg Lantern
Sir Charles Bell
Not Bell?
Q.104
BL.Q.104
British Library, Oriental and India Office Collections
Manual Catalogues - Bell's List of Illustrations entry: "[No. of chapter] XXV. [Subject of Chapter] Travelling [Subject of Illustration] Q104 (y) British staging bungalow in Tibet, between Phari and Gyantze. [Remarks] L.123"
Other Information - Setting: The British built 11 staging bungalows between Gangtok and Gyantse. In February 1910, W. P. Rosemeyer, the telegraph officer whose photographs Bell collected, allowed the 13th Dalai Lama to shelter in the bungalow at Phari, en route to Yatung during his escape to India. [Alex McKay, Tibet and the British Raj , Surrey:Curzon Press, 1997, p.47]
For Citation use:
The Tibet Album.
"British staging bungalow between Phari and Gyantse"
05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum.
<http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.286.115.1.html>.
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