Key Information

Photographer

Unknown photographer

Collection

Sir Charles Bell

Date of Photo

1904-1922

Region

Gyantse

Accession number

1998.285.513.1

Image Dimensions

137 x 80 mm

Man in rolled up in shorts lying on the floor while a crowd looks on. Some of the women in the crowd are wearing the hooped headdresses of the Gyantse region.

Further Information

Photographic Process

Negative film nitrate , Copy Negative

Date Acquired

Donated 1983

Donated by

St. Antony's College, Oxford

Copy difference

Lantern Copy Neg

Expedition

Sir Charles Bell

Photo also owned by

Sir Charles Bell; Royal Central Asiatic Society

Revised Photographer

W. P. Rosemeyer?

Previous Catologue Number

P.256

Previous Pitt Rivers Museum Number

BL.P.256

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] VXXVII [Subject of Chapter] Amusements. [Subject of illustration] P.256 (ab) Monks' sports at Gyantse. Skipping in a reclining posture. [Remarks] L.136"

Contemporary Publication -

Contemporary Publication - Published in 'The People of Tibet', Bell, C. A., Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1928, facing p.268 [bottom], 'Skipping while lying down'. [PG 2/5/2003]

Other Information - Cultural Background

Other Information - Cultural Background: On 25th May 1921 Bell discussed popular forms of Tibetan entertainment with Kusho Palhese and this prompted the following Diary entry, made on 28th May 1921 in relation to skipping:"Skipping ( tak-chom ) i.e.: 'Rope-jumping' is another favoured recreation. Mostly indulged in by monks and by girls and young women, See accounts of it in earlier part of Diary and photos." [Diary Vol. X., p.85] On 25th May 1921 Bell discussed popular forms of Tibetan entertainment with Kusho Palhese and this prompted the following Diary entry, made on 28th May 1921 in relation to skipping:"Skipping ( tak-chom ) i.e.: 'Rope-jumping' is another favoured recreation. Mostly indulged in by monks and by girls and young women, See accounts of it in earlier part of Diary and photos." [Diary Vol. X., p.85]

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Monks' sports at Gyantse" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.285.513.1.html>.

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