2001.59.15.75.1 (Film negative)
Raw Image
Hugh E. Richardson
Hugh Richardson
1949
Yarlung Valley Region > Bantshag
2001.59.15.75.1
55 x 55 mm
Negative film nitrate
Donated August 2001
The executors of the estate of Hugh E. Richardson
Richardson's 1949 tour of the Yarlung and Chyongye valleys
Negative Album 9 No. 75
Manual Catalogues - Notes on negative album (slip cover) - 'Drikhung. Chongye. etc.' in Richardson's hand in white. (Yellow spine label) 'DRIKHUNG. CHONGYE. KOTSHAL. RGYAMA. Ganden 1948'. (Cover) - '9 DRIKHUNG. CHONGYE. YARLUNG. GYAMA. GANDEN' [KC 15/5/2006]
Manual Catalogues - Notes in negative index - Folio 75. 'do' [Dben rtsa or Ban Tshang]. [KC 30/5/2006]
Manual Catalogues - Richardson's Handlist, Negative book '9' 'Drikhung, Chongye etc.' [no] 74. 'Dben rtsa, is on the site of the Phag-mo-gru palace of Sne'u gdong.' [KC 3/6/2006]
Other Information - Location: Richardson mentions the site in High Peaks, Pure Earth , London, Serindia Publications, 1998, p. 318. "On the hillside at Sne'u-gdong (1949) a little further south is the derelict palace of the Phag-mo-gru-pa princes, and next to it Ban-tshag (sp?) monastery, housing images ... ; also several brronze mchod-rten ." [KC 3/6/2006]
For Citation use:
The Tibet Album.
"Bantshag monastery near Neugong, Yarlung valley"
05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum.
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