Key Information

Photographer

Hugh E. Richardson

Collection

Hugh Richardson

Date of Photo

1938

Region

Melong Tradun

Accession number

BMR.6.8.211

Image Dimensions

60 x 90 mm

Two monks blowing dung chen horns at Melong Tradun monastery on the Tibet Bhutan border.

Further Information

Activity

Performing

Photographic Process

Transparency Colour

Expedition

Hugh E. Richardson

Other Information

Technical Information - The cameras used to take this collection of colour slides (Dufay colour) were a Zeiss Super Ikonta and a Reflex Korelle. [KC 09/10/2006]

Manual Catalogues -

Manual Catalogues - Typewritten handlist entitled 'Hugh Richardson Collection, The British Museum. Photographs taken between 1936-50. Cameras: Zeiss Super Ikonta, Reflex Korelle. 300 colour slides (Dufay colour); copies made Jan. 1995.
[no.] 211. Monks of Melong Tradun Monastery.' [KC 11/10/2006]

Other Information - Location: Richardson mentions this monastery in High Peaks, Pure Earth, 1998 , London: Serindia Publications, p. 328. "In a wild, rocky and inhospitable region at the south-east end of the Ram-mtsho Lake stands the isolated little monastery of Me-long Brag-bdun (1938)." [KC 20/10/2006]

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Two monks blowing dung chen horns at Melong Tradun" 05 Dec. 2006. The British Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_BMR.6.8.211.html>.

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