Key Information

Photographer

Rabden Lepcha?

Collection

Sir Charles Bell

Date of Photo

1920-1921

Region

Lhasa Area > Drepung > Nechung

Accession number

1998.285.286.1

Image Dimensions

120 x 163 mm

Drepung Monastery on the left and Nechung Oracle Temple on the right

Further Information

Photographic Process

Negative glass plate gelatin , Negative Half Plate

Date Acquired

Donated 1983

Donated by

St Antony's College, Oxford.

Copy difference

Lantern

Expedition

Sir Charles Bell's Mission to Lhasa 1920-21

Photo also owned by

Royal Central Asiatic Society

Previous Catologue Number

See H.261

Previous Pitt Rivers Museum Number

BL.H.261b

Other Information

Bell's List of Illustrations entry for H.261: "[No. of chapter] L. [Subject of Chapter] Lhasa [Subject of Illustration] H.261 (af) Dre-pung (left) and Nechung Oracle Temple. [Where placed - book page] I, 52. [Remarks] L.243"

Other Information - Related Images

Other Information - Related Images: Bell does not distinguish between 1998.285.285 and 1998.285.286 in his list of illustrations and both images may be referenced by the caption for H.261. [MS 9/6/2004]

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Drepung Monastery and Nechung Oracle Temple" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.285.286.1.html>.

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Drepung Monastery and Nechung Oracle Temple