1998.131.357.1 (Film Negative)
Raw Image
Frederick Spencer Chapman
Frederick Spencer Chapman
October 18th 1936
Evan Nepean?
Lhasa Area > Sera
1998.131.357.1
85 x 114 mm
Donated 1994
Faith Spencer Chapman
British Diplomatic Mission to Lhasa 1936-37
Frederick Spencer Chapman
C.8.19 [view film roll]
SC.T.2.357
In Negative - '19' has been scratched into the negative in the bottom right hand corner [MS 21/03/2006]
Manual Catalogues - Caption in Chapman's hand-written list of negatives made whilst on the Mission to Lhasa, 1936-7 [See PRM Manuscripts Collection]: 'Crowd outside Sera' [MS 21/03/2006]
Other Information - Related Images: Images prefixed with 'C.8' comprise a group of negatives containing images of the Potala and Lhasa, officials coming through Pargo Kaling, the Turquoise Bridge, Tsarong, Trimon, views from and of Sera, a woman washing clothes, a shepherd with sling, and football teams. They all seem to have been taken between October 13th - 20th 1936 [MS 17/03/2006]
Other Information - Can see a member of the Mission on the extreme right wearing a solar topi; behind him some monk's hats can also be seen suspended on a pole [TS 7/2/2005] This is possibly Evan Yorke Nepean [MS 21/03/2006]
For Citation use:
The Tibet Album.
"Sera Monastery"
05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum.
<http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.131.357.1.html>.
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