Key Information

Photographer

Lt Col R. S. Kennedy? Unknown Tibetan or Sikkimese photographer?

Collection

Sir Charles Bell

Date of Photo

August 12th-15th 1921

Region

Lhasa > Tsetrung Lingka

Accession number

1998.285.667

Image Dimensions

81 x 81 mm

Bell's Ache Lhamo in Tsetrung Lingka, near Lhasa. Actors on stage, spectators and tents behind; mountains in background. Play is 'Suk-kyi Nyi-ma' or 'Sun Body'. Trangsong in centre with white beard. The King is asking Trangsong for Sun Body in marriage

Further Information

Activity

Performing

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

Revised Photographer

Lt Col R. S. Kennedy?

Previous Catologue Number

L.147

Previous Pitt Rivers Museum Number

BL.P.275

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Bell's Ache Lhamo at Tsetrung Lingka" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.285.667.html>.

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