Horseman dressed in ancient armour at Trapshi Tsisher
2001.59.3.28.1 (Film negative)
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Key Information
Photographer
Hugh E. Richardson
Collection
Hugh Richardson
Date of Photo
Mid-late 1940s? c.1946?
Region
Lhasa > Trapshi
Accession number
2001.59.3.28.1
Image Dimensions
85 X 56 mm
Further Information
Photographic Process
Negative film nitrate
Date Acquired
Donated August 2001
Donated by
The executors of the estate of Hugh E. Richardson
Expedition
Hugh E. Richardson
Manual Catalogues -
Manual Catalogues - Notes on negative album - '3' 'MUG, LHOBRAG GORGE. GYANTSE. KHAMPA DANCERS. CHIPSHA MEN (?), CHOPA. APSOS, DREPUNG. NORBULING. DEKYI. POTALA'
Manual Catalogues -
Manual Catalogues - Notes on negative index - 'do. [Jomo Lhari]'
Other Information - description negative index and the photo does not match.
Other Information - Background: See Hugh E. Richardson, Ceremonies of the Lhasa Year , 1993, London: Serindia Publications, pp 31-37 for a description of the preparations and the actual day of the Review at Trapshi. The cavalry wear "chain-mail, much of it mere remnants, steel breast plates, steel helmets with brocade lappets and peacock plumes, heavy cloth trousers decorated with blue devices, and special boots. ..." (p. 34) [KC 15/7/2006]
Research publication - "Annual parade of horsemen in traditional armour. Each aristocratic family in Lhasa used to provide one officer with six or seven retainers from their estates from ceremonial "call up" at the time of the New Year festival". David Snellgrove and Hugh Richardson, A Cultural History of Tibet , London, George Weidenfeld and Nicolson, Ltd., 1968. p. 122 and also see page 197. [TS 18/4/2005]
For Citation use:
The Tibet Album.
"Horseman dressed in ancient armour at Trapshi Tsisher"
05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum.
<http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_2001.59.3.28.1.html>.
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