Key Information

Photographer

Rabden Lepcha?

Collection

Sir Charles Bell

Date of Photo

c. February 11th 1921

Region

Lhasa

Accession number

1998.285.143

Image Dimensions

120 x 163 mm

Huge cauldrons in which tea is boiled for the monks in the Great Prayer Festival or Monlam Chenmo in Lhasa. In front of the left cauldron is a stall selling religious and domestic objects. Tea bowls in front of right cauldron.

Further Information

Photographic Process

Negative glass plate gelatin , Negative Half Plate

Date Acquired

Donated 1983

Donated by

St Antony's College, Oxford.

Expedition

Sir Charles Bell's Mission to Lhasa 1920-21

Photo also owned by

Royal Central Asiatic Society

Revised Photographer

Rabden Lepcha?

Previous Catologue Number

H.122

Previous Pitt Rivers Museum Number

BL.H.122

Published

'The People of Tibet', Sir Charles Bell, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1928 [view list of illustrations]

Manual Catalogues -

Manual Catalogues - Bell's List of Illustrations entry: "[No. of chapter] XXIV. [Subject of Chapter] Food and Drink. [Subject of Illustration] H122 (h) Huge cauldrons in which tea is boiled for the monks in the Prayer Festival (Monlam) in Lhasa. [Remarks] See (d) [P.194 - Boiling tea at the monks' sports at Gyantse. A huge cauldron]. L.112 [lantern slide 112]"

Contemporary Publication -

Contemporary Publication - Published in 'The People of Tibet', Bell, C. A., Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1928, facing p.237:"Huge cauldrons in which tea is boiled for the monks during the 'Great Prayer' festival in Lhasa" [MS 10/9/2004]

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Cauldrons for boiling tea for monks" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.285.143.html>.

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