Tse Gutor at Palkhor Chode, Gyantse

Tse Gutor at Palkhor Chode, Gyantse

BMH.G.40.1 (Film negative)

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Key Information

Photographer

Arthur Hopkinson

Collection

A. J. Hopkinson

Date of Photo

February 20th 1928

Region

Gyantse > Palkhor Chode

Accession number

BMH.G.40.1

Image Dimensions

85 x 110

Part of the Tse Gutor ceremony at Palkhor Chode, Gyantse, which marked the end of the old Tibetan year. See A. J. Hopkinson Archive, OIOC British Library, Mss Eur D998/54, Journal Letters from Gyantse and Various Camps, 1927-28, commencing February 19th 1928, Gyantse, page 4 ff for a fuller description of this event. A black hat dancer poses, while onlookers crowd around the courtyard perimeter [see Notes]

Further Information

Photographic Process

Negative film nitrate

Expedition

A. J. Hopkinson's Tour of Duty as British Trade Agent, Gyantse, 1927-28

Other Information

In Negative - 'G-40' has been written along the right edge of the negative in blue-black ink [MS 19/08/2006]

Manual Catalogues -


Manual Catalogues - [Caption in A. J. Hopkinson's negative album 'Tibet G']: 'Black Hat dance' [MS 05/05/2006]

Other Information - Description: [Extract from taped interview, Richard Blurton and Mrs Hopkinson] 'Gyantse - the lama dances, a black-hat dancer carrying a phurbu ' [MS 12/08/2006]

Other Information - Dates


Other Information - Dates: For dating of image, see A. J. Hopkinson Archive, OIOC British Library, Mss Eur D998/54, Journal Letters from Gyantse and Various Camps, 1927-28, commencing February 19th 1928, Gyantse, page 4 [MS 19/08/2006]

Other Information - Description: Hopkinson commented in his journal about this event: “I went into the changing room while they [the Black Hat dancers] were dressing and you can’t imagine how friendly they are - One youth came up and asked me to take his photo in his get-up, and he stopped in the ceremonial procession, specially, so as to pose!” [A. J. Hopkinson Archive, OIOC British Library, Mss Eur D998/54, Journal Letters from Gyantse and Various Camps, 1927-28, commencing February 19th 1928, Gyantse, page 4] [MS 19/08/2006]

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Tse Gutor at Palkhor Chode, Gyantse" 05 Dec. 2006. The British Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_BMH.G.40.1.html>.

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