Key Information

Photographer

Evan Yorke Nepean

Collection

Frederick Spencer Chapman

Date of Photo

August 4th - 5th 1936

Region

Chumbi Valley Region >

Accession number

1998.131.129

Image Dimensions

61 x 90

Monk with prayer wheel in the Chumbi Valley

Further Information

Date Acquired

Donated 1994

Donated by

Faith Spencer Chapman

Expedition

British Diplomatic Mission to Lhasa 1936-37

Photo also owned by

Frederick Spencer Chapman

Revised Photographer

Evan Yorke Nepean

Previous Catologue Number

YN.13

Previous Pitt Rivers Museum Number

SC.T.2.129

This Image also appears in another collection

2001.35.396.7.4 2001.35.22.1

Other Information

In Negative - 'YN 13' has been scratched into the negative in the bottom left hand corner. This identifies the image has having been taken by Evan Yorke Nepean [MS 09/03/2006]

Other Information - Dates

Other Information - Dates: It seems likely that this image was taken on or just before August 2nd -5th 1936 because the images taken by Nepean appear to have been ordered and numbered broadly chronologically. Furthermore, in his account of events for August 5th 1936, Chapman states: "Met three begging monks. The chief one, a gaunt old man with a lovely copper prayer wheel bound with silver, had a large religious painting which he explained to us in a queer chanting voice. Filmed him." ['Lhasa: The Holy City', F. Spencer Chapman, London: Chatto & Windus, 1938, p.30]. This image is related through Nepean's album in the Pitt Rivers Museum with two other images showing this man as part of a group and with a thanka painting, as well as having a prayer wheel and Chapman's description, may, therefore, relate to the encounter with this monk [MS 09/03/2006]

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Monk with prayer wheel" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.131.129.html>.

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