Key Information

Photographer

Unknown photographer

Collection

Sir Charles Bell

Date of Photo

1904-1922

Region

Gyantse > Palkhor Chode

Accession number

1998.285.489

Large group of children. Boy monks from Palkor Chode Monastery

Further Information

Photographic Process

Negative glass plate gelatin , Copy Negative

Date Acquired

Donated 1983

Donated by

St. Antony's College, Oxford

Copy difference

Copy Neg

Expedition

Sir Charles Bell

Photo also owned by

Sir Charles Bell; Royal Central Asiatic Society

Previous Catologue Number

P.815

Previous Pitt Rivers Museum Number

BL.P.185

Related Collections

British Library, Oriental and India Office Collections

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] XXII. [Subject of Chapter] The Children [Subject of Illustration] P.185 (gl) (a) Children dressed up for playing. Boy monks from Palkor Chode Monastery."

Contemporary Publication -

Contemporary Publication - Published in 'The People of Tibet', Bell, C. A., Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1928, facing p.214:" 'The Tibetan children do not lack amusement'. Boy monks dressed for playing". [PG 2/5/2003]

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Boy monks from Palkor Chode Monastery " 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.285.489.html>.

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