Key Information

Photographer

Frederick Spencer Chapman

Collection

Evan Yorke Nepean

Date of Photo

October 3rd 1936

Named Person

Rupon

Region

Lhasa > Dekyi Lingka

Accession number

2001.35.361.1

Image Dimensions

106 x 72 mm

Rupon with single earring in his left ear singing flanked by two chang beer serving girls with elaborate hair pieces and jewellery with tent awning in the background. This photograph was taken at the Dekyi Lingka, the residence of the British Mission in Lhasa, on the occasion of a party for 4th and 5th Rank officials

Further Information

Activity

Singing

Photographic Process

Print silver

Date Acquired

Loaned August 2002

Donated by

Judy Goldthorp

Expedition

British Diplomatic Mission to Lhasa 1936-37

Photo also owned by

Lady Nepean

Previous Catologue Number

CX.24 [view film roll]

Other Information

Notes on print/mount - 'Fat monk and chang girls'; [ink no:] 41; [pencil no:] CX/24; [blue no:] '; from an envelope marked 'Chang Girls, Fat Monks, Dancing Girls, Mummers'. [KC 07/08/2006]

Manual Catalogues -

Manual Catalogues - Caption in Chapman's hand-written list of negatives made whilst on the Mission to Lhasa, 1936-7 [See PRM Manuscripts Collection]: 'Rupon and 2 chang girls good' [MS 07/08/2006]

Other Information - Related Images

Other Information - Related Images: Images prefixed with 'CX.' taken on the British Mission to Lhasa of 1936-37 comprise a group of negatives containing images of Phendong and his house, grinding grain, officials (5th rank), Rupon, doctors, artists at work, official’s at Regent’s departure. They all seem to have been taken between October 2nd - 6th 1936 [MS 07/08/2006]

Other Information - Setting

Other Information - Setting: Mission Diary for October 3rd: "Today we gave the last of our big lunch parties. The guests were officials below the fourth rank. They were as easy to entertain as all our earlier guests and it was an enjoyable afternoon but we were all relieved to see the end of a week of parties" ['Lhasa Mission, 1936: Diary of Events', Part VII p. 2, written by Hugh Richardson]. See Bodleian Library Hugh Richardson Archive MS. Or. Richardson 3 folio 42 for a fuller description of this event.

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Tibetan women and Rupon at Dekyi Lingka party" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_2001.35.361.1.html>.

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