1998.131.151 (Contact Print)
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Frederick Spencer Chapman
Frederick Spencer Chapman
August 5th 1936
Chumbi Valley Region > Phari
1998.131.151
62 x 88
Print gelatin silver
Donated 1994
Faith Spencer Chapman
British Diplomatic Mission to Lhasa 1936-37
Frederick Spencer Chapman
CG.2 [view film roll]
SC.T.2.151
Notes on print/mount - 'CG.2' has been written on the back of the print in pencil, as has 'F. Spencer Chapman', apparently in his own hand [MS 10/03/2006]
Manual Catalogues - Caption in Chapman's hand-written handlist of negatives taken whilst on the Mission to Lhasa, 1936 [See PRM Manuscripts Collection]: View over Phari Dak B[ungalow] and Dzong to hills [MS 10/03/2006]
Other Information - Related Images: 'CG' prefixes a group of negatives containing images of Phari, Chomolhari, Dr Tunyip, Phari Dzongpen, Tuna, telephoto panorama of Chomolhari. A hand-written note at the bottom of the list states ‘2 1/4 x 3 1/4 gone to album’ meaning that they were destined to be included in the draft album from which official selections of images of the Mission were to be made [MS 10/03/2006]
Other Information - Setting: "The Phari bungalow is flat-roofed, as are all the buildings here, and faces onto a cobbled courtyard together with the Post Office and the rooms of the Postmaster, who is a Nepali, and the hut-keeper, who is a rather superior looking Tibetan with a long plait and a heavy gold ring in his left ear" ['Lhasa: The Holy City', F. Spencer Chapman, London: Chatto & Windus, 1938, p.33]
For Citation use:
The Tibet Album.
"Phari Dak Bungalow and Dzong"
05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum.
<http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.131.151.html>.
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