Key Information

Photographer

Hugh E. Richardson

Collection

Hugh Richardson

Date of Photo

1948, 1949

Named Person

Phalha Dronyer Chenpo

Region

Lhasa > Dekyi Lingka?

Accession number

2001.59.7.34.2

Image Dimensions

60 x 60 mm

Phalha seated on a chair in a garden with hollyhocks in the background. He was the Dalai Lama's dronyer (mgron gnyer chen po) chamberlain and planned his escape from Tibet in 1959.

Further Information

Photographic Process

Print silver

Date Acquired

Donated August 2001

Donated by

The executors of the estate of Hugh E. Richardson

Expedition

Hugh E. Richardson

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Phalha seated on a chair in a garden" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_2001.59.7.34.2.html>.

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