Key Information

Photographer

Sir Charles Bell or Rabden Lepcha?

Collection

Sir Charles Bell

Date of Photo

1920-1921

Region

Lhasa > Jokhang

Accession number

1998.286.241

Image Dimensions

78 x 103

Entrance to the Jokhang in Lhasa with flowers in pots on the verandah. Above is a yak hair curtain; below a curtain of English-made cloth. On the right a woman prostrating.

Further Information

Activity

Worshipping

Photographic Process

Negative Quarter Plate

Date Acquired

Donated 1983

Donated by

St Antony's College, Oxford

Expedition

Sir Charles Bell's Mission to Lhasa 1920-21

Previous Catologue Number

Q.230

Previous Pitt Rivers Museum Number

BL.Q.230

Related Collections

British Library, Oriental and India Office Collections

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Entrance of Jokhang, Lhasa" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.286.241.html>.

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