Key Information

Photographer

Unknown

Collection

Hugh Richardson

Date of Photo

c. July 11th 1936

Named Person

Hugh Richardson

Region

Chumbi Valley Region > Champithang

Accession number

2001.59.3.7.1

Image Dimensions

85 X 56 mm

Hugh Richardson standing in front of the dak bungalow at Champithang. There is a servant in the garden on the right of the image. There is a pair of walking boots on the step beside him.

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

Revised Photographer

David Macdonald? Pema Dawa?

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 - 'Chumpithag HR'

Manual Catalogues -

Manual Catalogues - Richardson's Hand List: 'Album no.3 [no.] 7. 'British Dak Bungalow in Tibet, north of the Nathu pass, Chumpitang.' [KC 02/10/2006]

Other Information - Setting

Other Information - Setting: Dak Bungalow literarily means post office. These buildings served as a post office and the trade agent's office, as well as a rest point and inn for colonial officers on tour. [TS 12/4/2005]

Other Information - Dates

Other Information - Dates: This image may have been taken when Richardson was en route to Lhasa for the first time in 1936, travelling with David Macdonald and Richardson's bearer Pema Dawa as far as Yatung, where they would meet some of the other members of the Mission party. The negative format is consistent with those that Richardson used in the early stages of the British Mission. The date he was at Champithang is derived from letters home to his parents in the manuscript archive at the Bodleian Library, Oxford University. This size of negative is quite distinctive in Richardson's collection and seems only to have been used before March 1937 [MS Or Richardson 3 folio 31] [MS 7/10/2005]

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Richardson at Dak Bungalow at Champitang" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_2001.59.3.7.1.html>.

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