Key Information

Photographer

Frederick Spencer Chapman

Collection

Frederick Spencer Chapman

Date of Photo

January 1st 1937

Named Person

Tsarong Dzasa, Tendong Shappe, Bhondong, Kalon Lama, Langchunga

Region

Lhasa > Dekyi Lingka

Accession number

1998.131.463

Image Dimensions

107 x 160

The four Shappes of the Lhasa Cabinet sitting outside at a New Year's party at the Dekyi Lingka with Tsarong Dzasa. They had previously handed over a permit to mount an expedition to climb Mount Everest in 1938 to the Mission. Left to right: Tsarong, Tendong, Bhondong, Kalon Lama, Langchunga. Tents belonging to the Mission can be seen in the background. A sixth official is seated next to Langchunga on the right

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

BJ.17 [view film roll]

Previous Pitt Rivers Museum Number

SC.T.2.463

Other Information

Notes on print/mount - The reference number 'B-J-17' has been written on the back of the print in pencil [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]: '4 Shapes and Tsarong' [MS 27/03/2006]

Other Information - Related Images

Other Information - Related Images: Images prefixed with 'BJ' comprise a group of negatives containing images of the Lhasa band, chang girls, Tibetan officials including Tsarong and Ringang, Finch, Norbhu, Everest Permit and Khampa people, all apparently taken in the first week of January 1937 [MS 16/03/2006]

Other Information - Setting

Other Information - Setting: "To celebrate New Year's Day we invited the following to a luncheon party: the Prime Minister; the four Shappes - or Cabinet Ministers - Langchunga, Bhondong, Tendong and Kalon Lama; the Yapshi Kung, or Grand Duke: Tsarong Dzaza, and Chikyap Khempo, the head of the Ecclesiastical party. ... On arrival the first act of the Cabinet was to hand to Norbhu a sealed packet made of coarse Tibetan paper, together with the customary white silk scarf of greeting. This turned out to be the permission for an Everest Expedition in 1938. The Cabinet had been considering the question for some weeks and it struck us as an act of the greatest courtesy to hand over the permit so unostentatiously as a New Year's present" ['Lhasa Mission, 1936: Diary of Events', Part XII p.1 , written by Chapman] [MS 23/03/2006]

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Four Cabinet Officials with Tsarong" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.131.463.html>.

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