Key Information

Photographer

Rabden Lepcha?

Collection

Sir Charles Bell

Date of Photo

March 5th 1921

Region

Lhasa > Lhalu

Accession number

1998.285.140.1

Image Dimensions

120 x 163 mm

Gathering of people. Children in foreground. Mountains in background and corner of a tent on extreme right. These children are probably students from the Tsikhang or Government College who are watching a gun and arrow shooting competition

Further Information

Photographic Process

Negative glass plate gelatin

Date Acquired

Donated 1983

Donated by

St Antony's College, Oxford.

Copy difference

Lantern Intensifier Red intensifying mask on left side of image

Expedition

Sir Charles Bell's Mission to Lhasa 1920-21

Photo also owned by

Royal Central Asiatic Society

Previous Catologue Number

Not found

Previous Pitt Rivers Museum Number

BL.H.120b

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Gathering of people watching shooting competition" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.285.140.1.html>.

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