Key Information

Photographer

Rabden Lepcha?

Collection

Sir Charles Bell

Date of Photo

1920 - 1921

Region

Lhasa >

Accession number

1998.285.227.1

Image Dimensions

120 x 163 mm

A nun showing a religious picture to passers-by on a road. From it she illustrates episodes in the lives of Buddha

Further Information

Photographic Process

Negative glass plate gelatin , Negative Half Plate

Date Acquired

Donated 1983

Donated by

St Antony's College, Oxford.

Copy difference

Lantern Intensifier Tape

Expedition

Sir Charles Bell's Mission to Lhasa 1920-21

Photo also owned by

Sir Charles Bell; Royal Central Asiatic Society

Previous Catologue Number

H.198

Previous Pitt Rivers Museum Number

BL.H.198

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Nun with picture of episodes in the lives of the Buddha " 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.285.227.1.html>.

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