Photographer's Caption

Big lake ghost scarer

Film Negative Number

CP.10

Group

Location

TL

Notes

A group of negatives containing images of the route to Lhasa including rock paintings, a ‘ghost scarer’, environs of Nyapsu La, Singma, boats on the Tsangpo, birds and flowers. The list is referred to as ‘P’ in Chapman’s papers, but all the images were prefixed ‘CP’ in the draft album and related prints int he Pitt Rivers Museum collection are also annotated as ‘CP’

Photographer's Caption

Ghost scarer against sky

Film Negative Number

CP.11

Group

Location

MR

Notes

A group of negatives containing images of the route to Lhasa including rock paintings, a ‘ghost scarer’, environs of Nyapsu La, Singma, boats on the Tsangpo, birds and flowers. The list is referred to as ‘P’ in Chapman’s papers, but all the images were prefixed ‘CP’ in the draft album and related prints int he Pitt Rivers Museum collection are also annotated as ‘CP’

Photographer's Caption

Ditto [Ghost scarer against sky] less up in air

PRM Caption

PRM Manuscripts Collection: ‘List of Tibetan Prints and Negatives’ - Book 1, From Gangtok to the Natu La August 1936: ‘‘Ghost traps’ on a ridge beside a pass to catch evil spirits’

Date

August 20th 1936

Film Negative Number

CP.12

Group

Generals and odd

Location

BL

Notes

A group of negatives containing images of the route to Lhasa including rock paintings, a ‘ghost scarer’, environs of Nyapsu La, Singma, boats on the Tsangpo, birds and flowers. The list is referred to as ‘P’ in Chapman’s papers, but all the images were prefixed ‘CP’ in the draft album and related prints in the Pitt Rivers Museum collection are also annotated as ‘CP’

Accession

1998.131.195

scan

DSC_2231.jpg

Photographer's Caption

Ponies in front of ghost scarer

Film Negative Number

CP.13

Group

Location

BR

Notes

A group of negatives containing images of the route to Lhasa including rock paintings, a ‘ghost scarer’, environs of Nyapsu La, Singma, boats on the Tsangpo, birds and flowers. The list is referred to as ‘P’ in Chapman’s papers, but all the images were prefixed ‘CP’ in the draft album and related prints int he Pitt Rivers Museum collection are also annotated as ‘CP’

scan

DSC_2231.jpg