Musicians at Dekyi Lingka

Musicians at Dekyi Lingka

2001.35.272.1 (Print Black & White)

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Key Information

Photographer

Frederick Spencer Chapman

Collection

Evan Yorke Nepean

Date of Photo

September 18th 1936?

Region

Lhasa > Dekyi Lingka

Accession number

2001.35.272.1

Image Dimensions

105 x 72 mm

Group of musicians playing traditional instruments with cups of tea set before them on a low table and umbrellas hanging in the tree behind them.

Further Information

Photographic Process

Print silver

Date Acquired

Loaned August 2002

Donated by

Judy Goldthorp

Expedition

British Diplomatic Mission to Lhasa 1936-37

Photo also owned by

Lady Nepean

Previous Catologue Number

CQ.12 In publication
'Lhasa Mission 1936, Diary of Events', P. Neame, H. Richardson, F. S. Chapman, Government of India Political Department [Note: photographs for October 18th - November 4th 1936 are not included as their relationship to text is not detailed; see Mission Diary text for details of images] [see photos in publication]

Published

'Lhasa Mission 1936, Diary of Events', P. Neame, H. Richardson, F. S. Chapman, Government of India Political Department [Note: photographs for October 18th - November 4th 1936 are not included as their relationship to text is not detailed; see Mission Diary text for details of images] [view list of illustrations]

Other Information

Notes on print/mount - 'local band; ink no: 44; pencil no: CQ/12; blue no: 53D'. [KC 07/08/2006]

Notes on print/mount - Caption in Chapman's hand-written list of negatives made whilst on the Mission to Lhasa, 1936-7 [See PRM Manuscripts Collection]: 'Tibetan band: rather unexposed' [MS 07/08/2006]

Other Information - Related Images


Other Information - Related Images: Images prefixed with 'CQ' taken on the British Mission to Lhasa in 1936 - 37 comprise a group of negatives containing images of beggars, Gundeling monastery, Potala, telephoto views of Potala, Tibetan dancers, Tibetan band, dancing girls, Tibetan telegraph master, female body cutters, old city magistrate, Austin car. They seem to have been taken between September 17th - 19th 1936 [MS 07/08/2006]

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Musicians at Dekyi Lingka" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_2001.35.272.1.html>.

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