Key Information

Photographer

Rabden Lepcha?

Collection

Sir Charles Bell

Date of Photo

1920-1921

Region

Lhasa > Sho > Doring

Accession number

1998.285.629

Image Dimensions

81 x 81 mm

Sho Doring or inscription pillar, showing the eas face

Further Information

Photographic Process

Lantern Slide

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

Previous Catologue Number

L.22

Previous Pitt Rivers Museum Number

BL.H.378-56

Related Collections

British Library, Oriental and India Office Collections

Manual Catalogues -

Manual Catalogues - Bell's List of Illustrations entry: "[No. of chapter] IV. [Subject of Chapter] History up to 1900. [Subject of illustration] H.378-56 (b) Sho Doring, East face, the oldest known inscription in Tibet. [Remarks] L.22"

Other Information - Related Images

Other Information - Related Images: The negative/print from which this lantern slide was made is not in the PRM Collection [MS 18/8/2004]

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Sho Doring , East face" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.285.629.html>.

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