Key Information

Photographer

Rabden Lepcha?

Collection

Sir Charles Bell

Date of Photo

March 4th 1921

Region

Lhasa > Barkhor > Jokhang

Accession number

1998.285.360.1

Image Dimensions

120 x 163 mm

Two officials seated and wearing in gyaluche dress, the costume of the old royal princes during the ceremony 'The Invitation to Maitreya' or jampa dendren. A short brocade jacket, black pleated silk skirt, rainbow sash and white cockle hat.

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

Revised Photographer

Rabden Lepcha?

Previous Catologue Number

H.330

Previous Pitt Rivers Museum Number

BL.H.330

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Crowds at Invitation to Maitreya, Lhasa" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.285.360.1.html>.

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Crowds at Invitation to Maitreya, Lhasa