Key Information

Photographer

Sir Charles Bell or Rabden Lepcha?

Collection

Sir Charles Bell

Date of Photo

1903-1920

Region

Sikkim

Accession number

1998.286.7.2

Image Dimensions

81 x 81 mm

In a Sikkim forest, group of people walking with two horses

Further Information

Photographic Process

Lantern Slide

Date Acquired

Donated 1983

Donated by

St Antony's College, Oxford

Expedition

Sir Charles Bell

Previous Catologue Number

L.8

Previous Pitt Rivers Museum Number

BL.Q.9

Related Collections

British Library, Oriental and India Office Collections

Manual Catalogues -

Manual Catalogues - Bell's List of Illustrations entry: "[No. of chapter] I. [Subject of Chapter] Sikkim [Subject of Illustration] Q.9 (av) In a Sikkim forest. [Remarks] L.8 (D.L)"

Technical Information - Although image 1998.286.7.1 is a copy negative, the lantern slide demonstrates that Bell clearly had an original print as well at some point, from which the lantern slide was made [MS 18/8/2004]

Notes on print/mount - This slide seems to have been used by Bell in the lantern lecture titled 'The Dalai Lama'. Most such slides have an additional number marked in blue, black or blue-black ink on the surround. A number (possibly 9?) seems to have been written on this slide but has become very faded [MS 10/9/2004]

Contemporary Publication -

Contemporary Publication - Published in 'The People of Tibet', Bell, C. A., Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1928, facing p.7:"In a Sikkim forest"

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Group in a forest in Sikkim" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.286.7.2.html>.

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