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2001.59.15.73.2 (Print black & white)
2001.59.15.73.2 (Print black & white)
Hugh E. Richardson
Hugh Richardson
1949
Yarlung Valley Region > Tsethang
2001.59.15.73.2
Donated August 2001
The executors of the estate of Hugh E. Richardson
Richardson's 1949 tour of the Yarlung and Chyongye valleys
Notes on print - 'Tsetang Ganden chokhor ly' (in pencil) is written on the reverse of print in Richardson's hand and 'Velox' in an oval is stamped in black. [KC 12/6/2006]
Manual Catalogues - Notes in negative index - Folio 73. 'Rtse thang'. [KC 30/5/2006]
Manual Catalogues - Richardson's Handlist, Negative book '9' 'Drikhung, Chongye etc.' [no] 73. Rtse-thang. Mkhyen brtse p.123' [KC 2/6/2006]
Other Information - Location: Richardson mentions the site in High Peaks, Pure Earth , London, Serindia Publications, 1998, p. 317. " Rtse-thang stands at the mouth of the Yarlung valley, the heartland of the old Tibetan kingdom and rich in traces of that age and many monasteries of later periods. At Rtse-thang itself is Dga'-ldan Chos-'khor-gling (1949) of the Phag-mo-gru-pa: it was later much enlarged and embellished with images of the Dge-lugs-pa church." [KC 3/6/2006]
For Citation use:
The Tibet Album.
"Settlement of Tsethang at head of Yarlung valley"
05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum.
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