Key Information

Photographer

Sir Charles Bell or Rabden Lepcha?

Collection

Sir Charles Bell

Date of Photo

November 1920

Region

Lhasa > Dekyi Lingka

Accession number

1998.286.121.1

Image Dimensions

78 x 103

Present of fruit from Dalai Lama to Charles Bell wrapped in black satin and sealed. Sent a few days after Bell's arrival in Lhasa.

Further Information

Photographic Process

Negative Quarter Plate

Date Acquired

Donated 1983

Donated by

St Antony's College, Oxford

Copy difference

Notches on right side

Expedition

Sir Charles Bell's Mission to Lhasa 1920-21

Previous Catologue Number

Q.107

Previous Pitt Rivers Museum Number

BL.Q.107a

Related Collections

British Library, Oriental and India Office Collections

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Present of fruit given to Bell by the 13th Dalai Lama" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.286.121.1.html>.

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