Mondo's house, Lhasa
1998.131.452 (Film negative)
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Key Information
Photographer
Frederick Spencer Chapman
Collection
Frederick Spencer Chapman
Date of Photo
January 1937
Region
Lhasa > Mondo's House
Accession number
1998.131.452
Image Dimensions
60 x 90
Further Information
Photographic Process
Negative film nitrate
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
8.8 [view film roll]
Previous Pitt Rivers Museum Number
SC.T.2.452
Other Information
In Negative - '8-8' has been scratched into the bottom right hand corner of the negative [MS 27/03/2006]
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]: 'Mondo’s house' [MS 27/03/2006]
Other Information - Related Images
Other Information - Related Images: Images prefixed with '8.' comprise a group of negatives containing images of Mondo’s house, a weaver and ragyapa people. All these images seem to have been taken in January 1937 [MS 16/03/2006]
Other Information - Setting
Other Information - Setting: "Now [Mondo] is a fifth rank official, sharing with Ramba, our lay guide, the charge of Sho, the village at the foot of the Potala. He also has an office in the Potala and is partly responsible for the park-lands of Lhasa. Mondo is a large, genial man with a loud ringing laugh and the extraordinary consideration and politeness that is so strong a characteristic of all the official class. he must have considerable wealth, for he is at present building a large and very beautiful mansion behind Muru monastery in the extreme north-eastern corner of the city" ['Lhasa: The Holy City', F. Spencer Chapman, London: Chatto & Windus, 1938, pp. 85-6] [MS 27/03/2006]
For Citation use:
The Tibet Album.
"Mondo's house, Lhasa"
05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum.
<http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.131.452.html>.
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