2001.59.7.59.1 (Film negative)
2001.59.7.59.1 (Film negative)
Hugh E. Richardson
Hugh Richardson
1945 - 1950
James Guthrie
Lhasa Area
2001.59.7.59.1
55 x 57 mm
Negative film nitrate
Donated August 2001
The executors of the estate of Hugh E. Richardson
Hugh E. Richardson
Manual Catalogues - Notes on negative album - '7' 'PEOPLE'
Manual Catalogues - Notes on negative index - Folio 59. 'James Guthrie Surkhang'
Other Information - Biography: See Alex McKay, Tibet and the British Raj, Richmond, Curzon Press, 1997, pp 167-8 . James Guthrie took up post as Medical Officer Gyantse in September 1934 - November 1935 and as Civil Surgeon Bhutan and Tibet from March 1945. " ... Major James Guthrie, though inclined to use his command of Tibetan to say what his superiors considred 'the most stupid and senseless things', had a great empathy with the Tibetans. Guthrie was given considerable reponsibility as the only senior British officer in Lhasa during Pemba Tsering's first months in charge of the mission [April 1945]. Among Guthrie's varied tasks in Lhasa was an operation to remove a cyst from the eye of one of the Dalai Lama's peacocks. The worried young Dalai Lama watched the operation and he remebers that Guthrie assured him, in the three forms of Tibetan speech, inferior, regular, and onorific, 'Don't worry, it will not die.'"
For Citation use:
The Tibet Album.
"Three monks and James Guthrie"
05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum.
<http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_2001.59.7.59.1.html>.
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