1998.286.208 (Glass negative)
1998.286.208 (Glass negative)
Sir Charles Bell or Rabden Lepcha?
Sir Charles Bell
1920-1921
Lhasa > Jara Lingka
1998.286.208
78 x 103
Negative Quarter Plate
Donated 1983
St Antony's College, Oxford
Sir Charles Bell's Mission to Lhasa 1920-21
Q.195
BL.Q.195
British Library, Oriental and India Office Collections
Manual Catalogues - Bell's List of Illustrations entry: "[No. of chapter] XLII. [Subject of Chapter] The Flora [Subject of Illustration] Q195 (j). Giant willows in the Jara Lingka. This pair and the pair in (h) [1998.286.207.1&2] all grow from the same roots."
Other Information - Setting: Bell's diary for 29th July 1921:" Lhack-cho orderly, one of my Tibetan orderlies, calls the weeping willow "Sorrow Tree" ( Nyan-gen shing ). Many of the people believe that when the 5th D[alai] L[ama] died, the branches of the weeping willows bent down and have bent down ever since. Formerly they stood up." [Diary Vol. XI, p.64]
Other Information - Related Images: The trees visible in 1998.286.208 and 1998.286.207.1&2 are both derived from the same root [MS 03/03/2006]
For Citation use:
The Tibet Album.
"Jara Lingka near Lhasa"
05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum.
<http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.286.208.html>.
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