Four pilgrims in Lhasa
1998.131.236 (Film negative)
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Key Information
Photographer
Frederick Spencer Chapman
Collection
Frederick Spencer Chapman
Date of Photo
September 8th 1936
Region
Lhasa
Accession number
1998.131.236
Image Dimensions
85 x 113 mm
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
Previous Catologue Number
C.4.15 [view film roll]
Previous Pitt Rivers Museum Number
SC.T.2.236
Other Information
In Negative - The number '15' has been scratched into the bottom right hand corner of the negative [MS 21/3/2005]
Technical Information - This image was probably taken with a quarter plate Zeiss Nixe film or film pack camera as the negative is quarter-plate sized. See Chapman Lhasa The Holy City [London: Chatto & Windus, 1938] for a description of the still and cine cameras that Chapman used as Mission photographer [MS 25/2/2005]
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]: '4 beggars - each different head dress' [MS 16/03/2006]
Other Information - Related Images
Other Information - Related Images: Images prefixed with 'C.4.' comprise a group of negatives containing images of soldiers, turning prayer wheel, horns and rock paintings, paintings, Dr Morgan and mission hospital, beggar with skull and drum, monks outside Sera, meat seller and water tanks. They all seem to have been taken on or around September 8th 1936 [MS 16/03/2006]
Other Information - The figure standing second from the right is seen in closer view in 1998.131.237.1 [MS 21/3/2005]
For Citation use:
The Tibet Album.
"Four pilgrims in Lhasa"
05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum.
<http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.131.236.html>.
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