Key Information

Photographer

Arthur Hopkinson

Collection

A. J. Hopkinson

Date of Photo

March 14th 1927

Named Person

Gyantse Dzongpon (East), Gyantse Dzongpon (West), Captain Dean

Region

Gyantse > Dzong >

Accession number

BMH.B.52.1

Image Dimensions

85 x 112

Capt Dean on the far right and the two Dzongpon of Gyantse in the centre of the image. The Dzong can be seen in the background. Hopkinson took this photograph on the afternoon of March 14th 1927 when he went to repay the calls of the two Dzongpon who had visited him previously. Captain Dean has a camera case around his neck

Further Information

Photographic Process

Negative film nitrate

Expedition

A. J. Hopkinson's Tour of Duty as British Trade Agent, Gyantse, 1927-28

Other Information

In Negative - The negative has been cut very crudely down the left and right edges [MS 30/06/2006]

Manual Catalogues -

Manual Catalogues - [Caption in A. J. Hopkinson's negative album 'Tibet B']: '52 - Ditto [Jong-pen - Dean & Co]' [MS 22/04/2006]

Other Information - Dates

Other Information - Dates: For dating of image, see A. J. Hopkinson Archive, OIOC British Library, Mss Eur D998/54, Journal Letters from Gyantse and Various Camps, 1927-28, commencing March 13th 1927, Gyantse, pages 5-6 [MS 30/06/2006]

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Dean and the Dzongpon of Gyantse" 05 Dec. 2006. The British Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_BMH.B.52.1.html>.

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