Key Information

Photographer

Rabden Lepcha?

Collection

Sir Charles Bell

Date of Photo

1920-1921

Region

Lhasa > Potala > Doring

Accession number

1998.286.33

Image Dimensions

103 x 78

Obelisk inside the Potala gate. Two people seated on either side, with a dog in the foreground and a horse in the background

Further Information

Photographic Process

Negative glass plate gelatin

Date Acquired

Donated 1983

Donated by

St Antony's College, Oxford

Copy difference

Intensifier Notches on right side

Expedition

Sir Charles Bell's Mission to Lhasa 1920-21

Previous Pitt Rivers Museum Number

BL.Q.29

Related Collections

British Library, Oriental and India Office Collections

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Obelisk inside Potala gate" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.286.33.html>.

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